--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/27 19:36:55 1.101 +++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/27 21:16:26 1.102 @@ -1212,12 +1212,9 @@ EV is again fastest. -The C-based event loops Event and Glib come in second this time, as the -overhead of running an iteration is much smaller in C than in Perl (little -code to execute in the inner loop, and perl's function calling overhead is -high, and updating all the data structures is costly). - -The pure perl event loop is much slower, but still competitive. +Perl again comes second. It is noticably faster than the C-based event +loops Event and Glib, although the difference is too small to really +matter. POE also performs much better in this case, but is is still far behind the others.