--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm	2008/04/26 11:06:45	1.95
+++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm	2008/04/27 17:09:33	1.99
@@ -68,6 +68,25 @@
 useful) and you want to force your users to use the one and only event
 model, you should I<not> use this module.
 
+#TODO#
+
+Net::IRC3
+AnyEvent::HTTPD
+AnyEvent::DNS
+IO::AnyEvent
+Net::FPing
+Net::XMPP2
+Coro
+
+AnyEvent::IRC
+AnyEvent::HTTPD
+AnyEvent::DNS
+AnyEvent::Handle
+AnyEvent::Socket
+AnyEvent::FPing
+AnyEvent::XMPP
+AnyEvent::SNMP
+Coro
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -946,7 +965,7 @@
     CoroEV/Any   100000   244   2.49   0.44    0.29 coroutines + Coro::Signal
       Perl/Any   100000   513   4.92   0.87    1.12 pure perl implementation
    Event/Event    16000   516  31.88  31.30    0.85 Event native interface
-     Event/Any    16000   936  39.17  33.63    1.43 Event + AnyEvent watchers
+     Event/Any    16000   590  35.75  31.42    1.08 Event + AnyEvent watchers
       Glib/Any    16000  1357  98.22  12.41   54.00 quadratic behaviour
         Tk/Any     2000  1860  26.97  67.98   14.00 SEGV with >> 2000 watchers
      POE/Event     2000  6644 108.64 736.02   14.73 via POE::Loop::Event
@@ -966,6 +985,11 @@
 the time - usually it takes longer. This puts event loops tested with a
 higher number of watchers at a disadvantage.
 
+To put the range of results into perspective, consider that on the
+benchmark machine, handling an event takes roughly 1600 CPU cycles with
+EV, 3100 CPU cycles with AnyEvent's pure perl loop and almost 3000000 CPU
+cycles with POE.
+
 C<EV> is the sole leader regarding speed and memory use, which are both
 maximal/minimal, respectively. Even when going through AnyEvent, it uses
 far less memory than any other event loop and is still faster than Event
@@ -1064,7 +1088,7 @@
 
     name sockets create  request 
       EV   20000  69.01    11.16 
-    Perl   20000  75.28   112.76 
+    Perl   20000  73.32    35.87 
    Event   20000 212.62   257.32 
     Glib   20000 651.16  1896.30 
      POE   20000 349.67 12317.24 uses POE::Loop::Event
@@ -1120,9 +1144,9 @@
 
     name sockets create request 
       EV      16  20.00    6.54 
+    Perl      16  25.75   12.62 
    Event      16  81.27   35.86 
     Glib      16  32.63   15.48 
-    Perl      16  24.62  162.37 
      POE      16 261.87  276.28 uses POE::Loop::Event
 
 =head3 Discussion
@@ -1130,7 +1154,9 @@
 The benchmark tries to test the performance of a typical small
 server. While knowing how various event loops perform is interesting, keep
 in mind that their overhead in this case is usually not as important, due
-to the small absolute number of watchers.
+to the small absolute number of watchers (that is, you need efficiency and
+speed most when you have lots of watchers, not when you only have a few of
+them).
 
 EV is again fastest.
 
@@ -1141,7 +1167,7 @@
 
 The pure perl event loop is much slower, but still competitive.
 
-POE also performs much better in this case, but is is stillf ar behind the
+POE also performs much better in this case, but is is still far behind the
 others.
 
 =head3 Summary