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@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ enabling this flag.
 
 This works by calling C<getpid ()> on every iteration of the loop,
 and thus this might slow down your event loop if you do a lot of loop
-iterations and little real work, but is usually not noticable (on my
+iterations and little real work, but is usually not noticeable (on my
 Linux system for example, C<getpid> is actually a simple 5-insn sequence
 without a syscall and thus I<very> fast, but my Linux system also has
 C<pthread_atfork> which is even faster).
@@ -432,6 +432,16 @@ Like C<ev_default_fork>, but acts on an event loop created by
 C<ev_loop_new>. Yes, you have to call this on every allocated event loop
 after fork, and how you do this is entirely your own problem.
 
+=item unsigned int ev_loop_count (loop)
+
+Returns the count of loop iterations for the loop, which is identical to
+the number of times libev did poll for new events. It starts at C<0> and
+happily wraps around with enough iterations.
+
+This value can sometimes be useful as a generation counter of sorts (it
+"ticks" the number of loop iterations), as it roughly corresponds with
+C<ev_prepare> and C<ev_check> calls.
+
 =item unsigned int ev_backend (loop)
 
 Returns one of the C<EVBACKEND_*> flags indicating the event backend in