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@@ -420,8 +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.
+All this means that, in practise, C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> can be as fast or
+faster then epoll for maybe up to a hundred file descriptors, depending on
+the usage. So sad.
While nominally embeddable in other event loops, this feature is broken in
all kernel versions tested so far.