--- AnyEvent/Changes 2008/04/26 04:19:02 1.59 +++ AnyEvent/Changes 2008/04/27 19:15:43 1.61 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent. + - added AnyEvent::Handle and AnyEvent::Socket modules - fix a bug in the pure perl backend that kept watchers alive when multiple watchers were registered for the same fh/poll combo. - add a benchmark section showing AnyEvent overhead and comparing @@ -14,10 +15,10 @@ - support POE as "backend" (with some caveats, POE is not generic enough, and darn slow). - support Wx and Prima through POE. - - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and to be roughly - 2-3 times faster in the common case of sparsely-active file - descriptors. It can now compete with select/poll-based C event - loops in most cases (it is usually faster than Event and Glib :). + - optimise perl backend to use 20% less memory and take advantage + of typical timeout behaviour. It can now compete with + select/poll-based C event loops in most cases (it is usually + faster than Event and Glib :). - roughly cut EV memory use in half and increase its speed by 30%, by removing undocumented functionality.