Event Dispatchers Vs Interfaces performance difference?

ED would technically be the heaviest IMHO, as it is pretty much just calling out to the whole world even if no one is listening for it.

What does this mean? I have no concept of a calling whole world in my programming cookbook, the only thing I can think of is observer pattern, which is about observing only by the name and appeared functionality, under the hood its just arrays of objects to message.