You're right, there's no benchmarks, thanks for the tip, I'll go for that. As for the lambda, it seemed somewhat natural for me back then - anonymous callback bound to IO... OTOH there would be no problem to make the lambda keyword an alias to another, less confusing name, so the only question is what that name should be? new_io_chain ? Doesn't sound... don't know really.

update: here's some premature benchmarks. the source code will be added to the next release, for now it's here

Single-process tcp client and server; server echoes back everything is sent by the client. 500 connections sequentially created, instructed to send a single line to the server, and destroyed. 

                        2.4GHz x86-64 linux
  Lambda using select       0.694 sec
  Lambda using AnyEvent     0.684 sec
  Raw sockets using select  0.145 sec
  POE using select          5.349 sec
the POE numbers are somewhat strange. I might've done something wrong there, anyone interested is welcome to check tcp-poe.pl from the link above.

In reply to Re^2: IO::Lambda - suggestions wanted by dk
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