--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/26 11:06:45 1.95 +++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/26 11:16:16 1.96 @@ -966,6 +966,11 @@ 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 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