On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:33 AM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can we please not invent yet another pooling mechanism at Apache?
That definitely was not my intention. I was just suggesting borrowing code (not dependency!) from certain projects to get us going, since, to the best of my knowledge, log4j-core is thriving to stay dependency free. (@Ralph has made the very same remark as well.) In any case, I still did not hear anything about the *interface* we want to make accessible within the Log4j code base. (@Matt?) How am I gonna claim a char[] of certain length? What about a StringBuilder? How are we gonna introduce control knobs to tune pool size(s)? In LogstashLayout, I dealt with these issues in an unpleasant way: each pool had its own configuration knob. While this worked okayish for LogstashLayout -- since I needed ~3 pools in total -- I am pretty sure it will turn into a configuration nightmare for bigger code bases, e.g., log4j-core.
