--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm	2008/04/25 07:15:09	1.69
+++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm	2008/04/25 07:29:42	1.71
@@ -866,7 +866,8 @@
 =head1 BENCHMARK
 
 To give you an idea of the performance and overheads that AnyEvent adds
-over the event loops directly, here is a benchmark of various supported
+over the event loops themselves (and to give you an impression of the
+speed of various event loops), here is a benchmark of various supported
 event models natively and with anyevent. The benchmark creates a lot of
 timers (with a zero timeout) and io watchers (watching STDOUT, a pty, to
 become writable, which it is), lets them fire exactly once and destroys
@@ -895,22 +896,22 @@
 invoked "watcher" times, it would C<< ->broadcast >> a condvar once to
 signal the end of this phase.
 
-I<destroy> is the time, in microseconds, that it takes destroy a single
+I<destroy> is the time, in microseconds, that it takes to destroy a single
 watcher.
 
 =head2 Results
 
           name watcher bytes create invoke destroy comment
          EV/EV  400000   244   0.56   0.46    0.31 EV native interface
-        EV/Any  100000   610   3.52   0.91    0.75 
+        EV/Any  100000   610   3.52   0.91    0.75 EV + AnyEvent watchers
     CoroEV/Any  100000   610   3.49   0.92    0.75 coroutines + Coro::Signal
-      Perl/Any   10000   654   4.64   1.22    0.77 pure perl implementation
-   Event/Event   10000   523  28.05  21.38    5.22 Event native interface
-     Event/Any   10000   943  34.43  20.48    1.39
+      Perl/Any   16000   654   4.64   1.22    0.77 pure perl implementation
+   Event/Event   16000   523  28.05  21.38    0.86 Event native interface
+     Event/Any   16000   943  34.43  20.48    1.39 Event + AnyEvent watchers
       Glib/Any   16000  1357  96.99  12.55   55.51 quadratic behaviour
         Tk/Any    2000  1855  27.01  66.61   14.03 SEGV with >> 2000 watchers
-    POE/Select    2000  6343  94.69 807.65  562.69 POE::Loop::Select
-     POE/Event    2000  6644 108.15 768.19   14.33 POE::Loop::Event
+     POE/Event    2000  6644 108.15 768.19   14.33 via POE::Loop::Event
+    POE/Select    2000  6343  94.69 807.65  562.69 via POE::Loop::Select
 
 =head2 Discussion