NAME

logfast - Insanely fast logging with a simple interface

Example

use logfast::LogFast;

fn main() {
  let buffer_size = 100;
  let mut lf = LogFast::new("my.log", buffer_size).unwrap();

  lf.log("Here's a test log line");
  lf.log("And here's another");
}


$ cat my.log
2020-01-10 23:54:25.177300600: Here's a test log line
2020-01-10 23:54:25.177380200: And here's another

DESCRIPTION

When you're doing things at speed, synchronous logging can really get in the way. Normally, each time you write to your logfile, your main thread will block until the write happens (this can be SLOW). Not with LogFast. Each time you call log(), it:

• Pushes your log message to a buffer in a seperate thread
• Instantly returns to let you keep going

Meanwhile, in the LogFast thread, it will flush the logs to the file as fast as it can, and then go back to sleep until new log messages arrive. This effectively parallelises the log writing with your main thread. Neat!

SUPPORT

Please report any bugs or feature requests at:

• https://github.com/alfiedotwtf/logfast/issues

Feel free to fork the repository and submit pull requests :)

SEE ALSO

• Some nice pictures of logs

AUTHOR

Alfie John

WARRANTY

IT COMES WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2021 by Alfie John

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.