--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 09:00:37 1.77 +++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 09:06:27 1.78 @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ my variables are only visible after the statement in which they are declared. -=head2 IO WATCHERS +=head2 I/O WATCHERS You can create an I/O watcher by calling the C<< AnyEvent->io >> method with the following mandatory key-value pairs as arguments: @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ =head1 EXAMPLE PROGRAM -The following program uses an IO watcher to read data from STDIN, a timer +The following program uses an I/O watcher to read data from STDIN, a timer to display a message once per second, and a condition variable to quit the program when the user enters quit: @@ -869,12 +869,12 @@ over the event loops themselves (and to give you an impression of the speed of various event loops), 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 watchers (watching STDOUT, a pty, to +timers (with a zero timeout) and I/O watchers (watching STDOUT, a pty, to become writable, which it is), lets them fire exactly once and destroys them again. Rewriting the benchmark to use many different sockets instead of using -the same filehandle for all io watchers results in a much longer runtime +the same filehandle for all I/O watchers results in a much longer runtime (socket creation is expensive), but qualitatively the same figures, so it was not used.