I have a wired device sending HTTP POST updates very regularly (often more than one per second) and if I watch those arrive, they appear almost instantaneous. If the sending device used IP (or, more likely, had cached the lookup) I guess that would be fast too.
Good point about the MQTT persistence, cheers.
I’m interested in what other people have found to be the fastest way to deliver events into HA. It’s been a useful thread.