8010309 : PlatformLogger: isLoggable performance / waste due to HashMap<Integer, Level> leads to Integer allocations (boxing)

[David M. Lloyd]

On 3/21/13 12:04 PM, Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:12:07 +0100, Laurent Bourgès wrote:
>
> [..]
>> FYI, I removed completely the Map<Integer, Object> levelObjects and used
>> two arrays to perform the PlatformLogger's level (int) to j.u.l.Level
>> mapping:
> [..]
>
> FWIW I know of at least one (quite old) project that declares custom
> j.u.l. Levels and which would be broken by this change. I personally don't
> care (since I think both j.u.l. and custom log levels are wrong to begin
> with :), but it's something to keep in mind. Maybe a Map-based mapping
> could be used as fallback, while the array-indexed lookups take the heat
> off of the common case. Just a suggestion.

Why would the platform logger ever use custom levels though?


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