--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 06:58:12 1.65 +++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 06:58:38 1.67 @@ -868,8 +868,9 @@ To give you an idea of the performance and overheads that AnyEvent adds over the backends directly, 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 events (watching STDOUT, a pty, to become -writable), lets them fire exactly once and destroys them again. +(with a zero timeout) and io watchers (watching STDOUT, a pty, to become +writable, which it is), lets them fire exactly once and destroys them +again. Explanation of the fields: