It's faster than FileAppender. http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/async.html#FileAppender_vs._FastFileAppender
________________________________ From: Paul Benedict <[email protected]> To: Log4J Developers List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 11:20 PM Subject: Re: Rename FastFileAppender I'd like to know what it's faster than too. The only other "fast" class is Commons Lang FastDateFormat. In their javadoc they say: "FastDateFormat is a fast and thread-safe version of SimpleDateFormat." I think the inference (taking a guess here) is that it's faster than SimpleDateFormat. I agree with Gary. Unless we have a comparison to something else, I say the "fast" adjective is meaningless. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All: > >This came up before but recent emails reminds me that we should rename >FastFileAppender and related classes to better names since "Fast" begs the >question: Faster than what? And: Where is the SlowFileAppender, and >MediumSpeedFileAppender and so on, you get the idea. > >I think the name that floated up before is >RandomAccessFileAppender. > >(Alternatively but not my 1st choice: RAFAppender, RafAppender.) > > >Thoughts? > > >Then both RandomAccessFileAppender and FileAppender co-exist until we decide >to: keep both or pick one as the true FileAppender. > >Gary > > >-- > >E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >JUnit in Action, Second Edition >Spring Batch in Action >Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >Home: http://garygregory.com/ >Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory -- Cheers, Paul
