[frankjr]

> Now it’s still slower by ~0.1s

Not for me. Printing HTTPie's version takes longer than to finish a real http request with xh. I suspect it's because I'm testing it on a relatively old server where the differences are even more pronounced.

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I'm using HTTPie 3.2.1 because Arch doesn't have the latest version available but based on the release notes that shouldn't make a difference.

[jkbr]

Gotcha. Would you mind checking if you happen to have PyOpenSSL installed inside the Python environment HTTPie runs from?

[frankjr]

I did not have it installed. Installing it did not make a difference. If it's of any help, here's a profile generated using cProfile. [link redacted]

[jkbr]

Thanks!