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

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

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:00:05 -0500, Eric B. Ridge <eb...@tc...> wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 12:10  PM, Lane Sharman wrote:
>
>>>
>>> new Date() calls System.currentTimeMillis(). This is a always very slow 
>>> call, as it requires native code.
>>
>> I think ebr's point is that this call is not made all that often. Right?
>
> In a well-behaved production environment, it shouldn't be called at all.

Indeed - typically it only happens 3 times at startup :-)

But, I suppose some people use WM logging for their application-level 
logging. I tend not to, I use a separate logging library.

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