[jira] [Commented] (LOG4J2-153) Async Logger/Appender performance improvement: provide mechanism to discover if location StackTraceElement is actually required downstream.

["Remko Popma (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Remko Popma commented on LOG4J2-153:
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I see. Looks like following this route will get complex very fast...

Maybe I am over-engineering things, and something much simpler could accomplish the same goal.
How about these ideas:

1. exclude location information for async Loggers/Appenders. Reasoning: clients choose async Loggers/Appenders to decrease logging latency. Since speed is their main concern, they won't need/want the expensive location. Clients who do want location can use the standard (synchronous) Logger/Appenders.

or
2. exclude by default (as in #1), but have a system property that enables clients to force location information to be included in async Loggers/Appenders.

3. any other ideas, anyone?
                
> Async Logger/Appender performance improvement: provide mechanism to discover if location StackTraceElement is actually required downstream.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-153
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-153
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Remko Popma
>
> (update 2013 Feb 4: changed summary.
> Previous title: Add a method to the Layout interface to allow Loggers to discover if any of their Appenders need the location StackTraceElement.)
> ----
> Use Case: any asynchronous Logger or Appender has this problem:
> should it take a snapshot of the call stack (as implemented in Log4jLogEvent.getSource) or not?
> This is an expensive method (1600+ nanoseconds on a machine with 2.9GHz cores) so you only want to call it if you need it. Currently there is no way to discover if the location information is used by any of the configured layouts.
> If the Layout interface has a method that indicates whether the layout calls the LogEvent.getSource method, then the Logger can query its LoggerConfig if any of the configured Appenders has a Layout which needs location info. (Maybe boolean needsLocationInfo() would be a good name?)
> With this information, a Logger can construct Log4jLogEvents with a non-null dummy StackTraceElement location if none of the layouts downstream need location info. The non-null dummy location would prevent LogEvent.getSource from taking a call stack snapshot.
> The current AsynchAppender class would get an immediate performance boost from this, and custom asynchronous Loggers or Appenders would reap the same benefits.

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