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Gilles commented on LANG-1373:
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It's not the naming part, it's the (supposedly _unique_) identifier part. See
your own examples (in the unit tests): identifying the timings is fragile (it's
easy to create two timings with the same name) and often redundant. I can't
think of a "deal breaker"; the functionality itself seems quite fine; it's the
usage part which I suspect is not as good as it could; but once the API is
released, it is fairly difficult to correct the course in "Commons": fixing a
single interface often requires changing all (even if "just" by renaming the
top-level package).
Perhaps the "name" should be a "prefix" (set at construction of the
{{StackWatch}} and the watch would append an increment to form a unique name at
each call to {{startTiming}} (?).
> Stopwatch based capability for nested, named, timings in a call stack
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>
> Key: LANG-1373
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1373
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: lang.time.*
> Reporter: Otto Fowler
> Assignee: Otto Fowler
> Priority: Major
>
> While working on adding some timing functionality to a Metron feature, I came
> across the
> Stopwatch class, but found that it didn’t suite my needs.
> What I wanted to do was to create a timing from a top level function in our
> Stellar dsl, and have have a group of related timings, such that the end
> result was the overall time of the call, and nested timings of other calls
> executed during the dsl execution of that function. These timings would all
> be named, and have a path for identification and include timing the language
> compiler/execution as well as the function execution itself. It would be
> helpful if they were tagged in some way as well, such that the consumer could
> filter during visitation.
> So I have written StackWatch to provide this functionality, and submitted it
> in a Metron PR.
> From the PR description:
> StackWatch
> A set of utility classes under the new package stellar.common.timing have
> been added. These provide the StackWatch functionality.
> StackWatch provides an abstraction over the Apache Commons StopWatch class
> that allows callers to create multiple named and possibly nested timing
> operations.
> <…>
> This class may be more generally useful to this and other projects, but I am
> not sure where it would live since we wouldn’t want it in common.
> StackWatch uses a combination of Deque and a custom Tree implementation to
> create, start and end timing operations.
> A Visitor pattern is also implemented to allow for retrieving the results
> after the completion of the operation.
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