Was there any conclusion to this?
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Paul Benedict <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Cheers, Paul
