Github user remkop commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/218
That was fast, thank you Carter!
It looks to me that the difference is just a handful of nanoseconds to null
out a 1000-element array.
I would expect the ringbuffer to contain mostly small arrays and an
occasional large array, and only those large arrays would then take an extra
few nanos to null out.
I do believe that it is more robust to null out the whole array. This
allows future contributors who are perhaps less familiar with the code to make
changes without breaking things.
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