A JIRA is tracking the list of new candidate class names. Gary
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Paul Benedict <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
