Re: [boost] Re: [Q]: What is the recommended logging facility for boost: log4cpp or ??

From: John Torjo (john.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-22 13:28:16

> 
> 
> That does not eliminiate any overhead that may exist due to evaluating
> the function arguments prior to making the call, nor any potential
> side effects of those expressions.
> 
> Personally, having debugging log statements completely disappear from
> the source code in a release build is more comforting, even if it
> involves a macro.
> 

In my lib, you say something like:

BOOST_LOG(gui) << "cursor at " << x << "," << y;

You can, at run-time, enable and/or disable logs.

Thus, the above is equivalent to:

// pseudo-code
if ( is_log_enabled(gui_log) )
   log(gui_log) << "cursor at " << x << "," << y;

Thus, the overhead of computing the string to output happens only if the 
log is enabled.

I think this is much more flexible (than having a compile-time switch).

Best,
John

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