Hello everyone,
You may not know, but it has become tradition for me to post an update about my logging library at the end of every year. Your critique and feedback have been invaluable, so thank you sincerely.
The logger is very fast and makes no heap allocations per log call. To achieve that, the logger uses several purpose-specific pre-allocated static buffers where everything is formatted in-place and memory is efficiently reused. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous logging. It's very configurable, so you can tailor it to your specific use case, including the sizes of the pre-allocated buffers I mentioned.
The codebase is clean, and I believe it's well documented, so you'll find it relatively easy to follow and read.
Whats new since last year:
A lot of stability/edge-case issues have been fixed
The logger is now available in vcpkg for easier integration
What's left to do:
Add Conan packaging
Add FMT support(?)
Update benchmarks for spdlog and add comparisons with more loggers(performance has improved a lot since the benchmarks shown in the readme)
Rewrite pattern formatting(planned for 1.6.0, mostly done, see
pattern_compiler branch, I plan to release it next month) - The pattern is parsed once by a tiny compiler, which then generates a set of bytecode instructions(literals, fields, color codes). On each log call, the logger executes these instructions, which produce the final message by appending the generated results from the instructions. This completely eliminates per-log call pattern scans, strlen calls, and memory shifts for replacing and inserting. This has a huge performance impact, making both sync and async logging even faster than they were.I would be very honoured if you could take a look and share your critique, feedback, or any kind of idea. I believe the library could be of good use to you: https://github.com/ChristianPanov/lwlog
Thank you for your time and happy holidays,
Chris
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