[logback-dev] Protobuf

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello Maarten,

It's interesting to learn that protobuf is faster than plain old java 
serialization. Thanks.

How about the size of the stored data? How many bytes does a logging event use 
on average?

Maarten Bosteels wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> No objections at all.
> 
> Looking at my .proto file it's indeed pretty obvious that CallerData and 
> StackTraceElement are quite similar :-)
> http://code.google.com/p/firewood/source/browse/trunk/compare-formats/src/main/java/com/googlecode/firewood/protobuf/logging.proto
> 
> I've done some benchmarking with protobuf (using the Corpus), and it 
> seems to be at least 4 times faster than Java serialization.
> Will soon post the results and the code.
> 
> regards,
> Maarten
> 

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