--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 09:06:27 1.78 +++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 09:08:16 1.79 @@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ select-based backend or the Event module) shows abysmal performance and memory usage: Watchers use almost 30 times as much memory as EV watchers, and 10 times as much memory as both Event or EV via AnyEvent. Watcher -invocation is almost 700 times slower than with AnyEvent's pure perl +invocation is almost 900 times slower than with AnyEvent's pure perl implementation. The design of the POE adaptor class in AnyEvent can not really account for this, as session creation overhead is small compared to execution of the state machine, which is coded pretty optimally within