100 Requests with full initialization on each.
Ruby 2.1.2
user system total real
mechanize: 3.400000 0.060000 3.460000 ( 55.907562)
nokogiri: 2.780000 0.180000 2.960000 ( 77.010076)
mechanize thread: 3.370000 0.190000 3.560000 (135.945538)
nokogiri thread: 2.790000 0.170000 2.960000 (141.881537)