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 can never compete with an event loop that uses epoll when the number of
 file descriptors grows high. In this benchmark, all events become ready at
 the same time, so select/poll-based implementations get an unnatural speed
 boost.
+Also, note that the number of watchers usually has a nonlinear effect on
+overall speed, that is, creating twice as many watchers doesn't take twice
+the time - usually it takes longer. This puts event loops tested with a
+higher number of watchers at a disadvantage.
 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
 natively.
 distribution.
 =head3 Explanation of the columns
 I<sockets> is the number of sockets, and twice the number of "servers" (as
-eahc server has a read and write socket end).
+each server has a read and write socket end).
 I<create> is the time it takes to create a socketpair (which is
 nontrivial) and two watchers: an I/O watcher and a timeout watcher.
 I<request>, the most important value, is the time it takes to handle a

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