On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, James Cheng wrote:

> I'm using libcurl in a C++ library. My library is called to do HTTP GET's of
> specified assets. For simplicity of design, each instance of my C++ object
> has its own curl_multi_handle, adds the curl_easy_handle to it, performs the
> GET, and then cleans itself up.

[...]

> it sounds like my approach is less efficient than having a single global
> multi handle, because it doesn't reuse open connections? Are there other
> things that it is not able to reuse? DNS cache?

Exactly. The connection cache and the DNS cache are the ones that hit my mind
immediately. I can't recall any other significant differences. You can also
still share DNS cache between handles if you use the share interface, even if
the handles are parts of different multi handles.

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