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| 866 | =head1 BENCHMARK |
866 | =head1 BENCHMARK |
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867 | |
| 868 | To give you an idea of the performance and overheads that AnyEvent adds |
868 | To give you an idea of the performance and overheads that AnyEvent adds |
| 869 | over the backends directly, here is a benchmark of various supported event |
869 | over the backends directly, here is a benchmark of various supported event |
| 870 | models natively and with anyevent. The benchmark creates a lot of timers |
870 | models natively and with anyevent. The benchmark creates a lot of timers |
| 871 | (with a zero timeout) and io events (watching STDOUT, a pty, to become |
871 | (with a zero timeout) and io watchers (watching STDOUT, a pty, to become |
| 872 | writable), lets them fire exactly once and destroys them again. |
872 | writable), lets them fire exactly once and destroys them again. |
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873 | |
| 874 | Explanation of the fields: |
874 | Explanation of the fields: |
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875 | |
| 876 | I<watcher> is the number of event watchers created/destroyed. Sicne |
876 | I<watcher> is the number of event watchers created/destroyed. Sicne |
