Reusing the same curl handle. Big performance increase?

Question

In a php script I am doing a lot of different cUrl GET requests (a hundred) to different URL.

Is reusing the same curl handle from curl_init will improve the perform

Answer 1

It depends how many requests you will be making - the overhead for closing & reopening each is negligable, but when doing a thousand? Could be a few seconds or more.

I believe curl_multi_init would be the fastest method.

The whole thing depends on how many requests you need to do.