--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 07:47:12 1.73 +++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 07:47:22 1.74 @@ -950,7 +950,8 @@ precedence over speed. Nevertheless, its performance is surprising, as the file descriptor is dup()ed for each watcher. This shows that the dup() employed by some adaptors is not a big performance issue (it does incur a -hidden memory cost inside the kernel, though). +hidden memory cost inside the kernel, though, that is not reflected in the +figures above). C, regardless of underlying event loop (wether using its pure perl select-based backend or the Event module) shows abysmal performance and