--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/26 11:16:16 1.96 +++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/27 03:31:53 1.97 @@ -1135,7 +1135,9 @@ 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. @@ -1146,7 +1148,7 @@ 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