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ev.h

@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ void ev_set_timeout_collect_interval (EV_P_ ev_tstamp interval); /* sleep at lea
 void ev_ref   (EV_P);
 void ev_unref (EV_P);
 
-/* convinience function, wait for a single event, without registering an event watcher */
+/* convenience function, wait for a single event, without registering an event watcher */
 /* if timeout is < 0, do wait indefinitely */
 void ev_once (EV_P_ int fd, int events, ev_tstamp timeout, void (*cb)(int revents, void *arg), void *arg);
 #endif

ev.pod

@@ -420,6 +420,9 @@ extra overhead. A fork can both result in spurious notifications as well
 as in libev having to destroy and recreate the epoll object, which can
 take considerable time and thus should be avoided.
 
+All this means that, in practise, C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> is as fast or faster
+then epoll for maybe up to a hundred file descriptors. So sad.
+
 While nominally embeddable in other event loops, this feature is broken in
 all kernel versions tested so far.