Voting: std.logger

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/10/2014 06:54 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 16:34:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> One possibility is to have the first function be a one-liner that
>> forwards to another. That way there will be less code bloating.
>>
>> void fun(uint l = __LINE__, A...)(A... as) {
>>   funImpl(l, as);
>> }
>>
>> private void funImpl(A...)(uint line, A...) {
>>   ... bulk of the code goes here ...
>> }
>
> Those are already small functions AFAIK (I was speaking about symbol
> bloat, not code bloat). It does not help with compilation issue though -
> each logging call creates a totally new template instance which means
> allocating new object for DMD internal representation and running
> semantic phase for it. And mature applications can have thousands of
> logging calls. I have yet to run tests to see actual impact but it
> concerns me from the pure DMD internals point of view.

Another possibility would be to fix this bug, but the mechanism isn't 
particularly elegant nor efficient:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13455 :o)