Re: [Webmacro-devel] org.webmacro.util.Clock + Logging

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:22:42 -0500, Eric B. Ridge <eb...@tc...> wrote:

> Is it really necessary to use org.webmacro.util.Clock (a background 
> thread) to calculate the timestamp for logging?  This seems like overkill 
> considering WM should only log when your templates are messed up.  It's 
> not like WM's performance is going to drop 2-fold by using "new Date()" 
> instead.
>
> Clock is only used in 3 places:  o.wm.servlet.ServletLog, 
> o.wm.util.LogFile, and o.wm.util.LogSource
>
> Can I remove this?  Please?

If I recall, this really was introduced due to heavy performance penalties. 
I think not using means getting very poor (unrealistic) performance while 
debugging, and this could in turn foul up your plans if your debugging 
involves an element of profiling.

I may be wrong, but I remember this...

Marc