Java 8 also has a replacement for SimpleDateFormat that should perform much better than SimpleDateFormat.
Ralph > On Oct 15, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 14 October 2017 at 23:34, Scott Deboy <scott.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Parsing time strings to their numeric values using SimpleDateFormat is >> painfully slow - I don't even use it any longer when I'm looking at >> 1M+ rows in Chainsaw. >> > > For the JSON and binary formats, we can output timestamps as millis, so > that'll parse really fast. :) > > >> Implementation wise I wrote this in the heyday of Logrj1, so >> LoggingEvent and a few other features of Log4j1, a number of which >> aren't present at all in log4j2, are found throughout the code. >> > > I was thinking that we might need to modularise Chainsaw a bit for that. A > core, log4j2, log4j1(?), logback, whatever really, and a UI module or two > (depending on how the GUI evolves). I'll detail my ideas more thoroughly as > I plan out a general upgrade path. > > >> A json receiver would be great! >> > > I think so too. It's one of the lower overhead formats to parse right now > until we have some avro/thrift ones. > > >> Me, I've been working on a private cloud IaaS implementation for a few >> years now - almost no Java there. >> > > So if I had to guess, I'd say: Go, Ruby, Python? > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
