--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 07:25:44 1.70 +++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm 2008/04/25 07:29:42 1.71 @@ -866,7 +866,8 @@ =head1 BENCHMARK To give you an idea of the performance and overheads that AnyEvent adds -over the event loops directly, here is a benchmark of various supported +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 become writable, which it is), lets them fire exactly once and destroys @@ -895,7 +896,7 @@ invoked "watcher" times, it would C<< ->broadcast >> a condvar once to signal the end of this phase. -I is the time, in microseconds, that it takes destroy a single +I is the time, in microseconds, that it takes to destroy a single watcher. =head2 Results