It comes from the discussions of isXEnabled() methods being slow in Axis etc.
On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 11:26 pm, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 05:08 PM, Alex Blewitt wrote:
I fear that this is a tad pointless; the logs in Log4J are going to do this anyway, and not cache the log values.
I disagree that this is pointless. We need something for today (it took about a half hour), and when they get their stuff working, we remove my code.
The big problem was that when doing log("String" + value + "message") is that the string concatenation is always done, regardless of whether the log level was enabled or not. That is why it was desirable to surround with the if() statements in the first place ...
Duh. We all agree on that. But when you have debug("my single string message") there is not need to wrap, and when you do need the isDebugEnabled() call, it will be very fast.
So the problem is still going to exist, albeit a factor slower since it's going through this caching log :-/
Agree, that is what caching is all about.
-dain
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