I was looking at the Logger classes the other day and I read some claims
about the performance of the Logger that I found a bit hard to believe.

Ideally what one would like is a system like the assertion system where
logging code is only executed when it is above the level being filtered
by the logging system so code like this:

thisLogger.finest("My info: " + SomeObject.performComplexCalculation());

would not execute except when the user was requesting logging at the
finest level.

I don't believe the Logger is handled this way.  It would require
compiler support that I don't believe exists, wouldn't it?

Am I correct in understanding that logging should not be used in inner
loops, even for debugging (if it will be in the code in production)?

Thanks.

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