Hi Carsten, thanks for your report. The usual way to report any kind of bug/enhancement is to file an issue in Jira [1]. If you attach your proposal as SVN diff file, we can acknowledge your contribution in the contributors section of the components website.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira 2013/5/2 <carsten.friedr...@csiro.au> > I'm currently tracking down performance issues in a highly multi-threaded > application which heavily uses BeanUtils (1.8.3). I identified > MethodUtils#getMatchingAccessibleMethod as a major problem. Especially its > call to > > > Log log = LogFactory.getLog(MethodUtils.class); > > for each invocation. In my environment, using log4j, this always involves > a call to HashTable which is synchronised. This causes a lot of waiting > time in that call in my application. > > Please consider using a static logger on class level rather than the new > logger for each invocation of MethodUtils#getMatchingAccessibleMethod. > > Cheers, > Carsten > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
