title: Better support for CURL with PHP and Linux
body: <p>I'm the developer of twittertrend.net, I was wondering if there was a faster way to get headers of a URL, besides doing curl_multi? I process over 250 URLs a minute, and I need a really fast way to do this from a PHP standpoint. Either a bash script could be used and then output the headers or C appliation, anything that could be faster? I have primarily only programmed in PHP, but I can learn. Currently, CURL_MULTI (with 6 URLs provided at once, does an ok job, but I would prefer something faster?
  Ultimately I would like to stick with PHP for any MySQL storing and processing.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks, 
  James Hartig</p>