Hi Mandy, Peter, thanks for the review.
I wanted the patch to be small and only in PlatformLogger class without API change to be easily backported to jdk7u. Do you think this bug is JDK8 only ? http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8010309 I submitted another patch concerning missing PlatformLogger.isLoggable(level) in the JDK (java.net, java.awt mainly) but it is not widely used as I thought first. see http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2013-March/004459.html Maybe in the future, other projects or JDK parts will use it if it is no more a performance bottleneck. Cheers, Laurent