wget vs curl for simple get operations

wgetVCurl.sh

#!/bin/bash

filename=abc.tmp
url=https://projects.scratch.mit.edu/internalapi/project/99999926/get
iters=30

rm $filename > /dev/null 2>&1

echo timing curl for $iters iterations
time for iter in `seq 1 $iters`; do
  curl -s $url -o $filename
  rm $filename
done

rm $filename > /dev/null 2>&1

echo timing wget for $iters iterations
time for iter in `seq 1 $iters`; do
  wget -O $filename -q $url
  rm $filename
done