Being in the dark here, is there any reason to provide a non-fast version? I only ask because FastDateFormat makes sense in that it is a replacement for a JDK counterpart. Is the FastFileAppender a replacement too? If not, I say why not only provide the fast one?
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Paul > > > -- Cheers, Paul
