[infinispan-dev] The windup of 6.0.0

[Bela Ban]

On 10/17/13 4:48 PM, Dennis Reed wrote:
> On 10/17/2013 05:26 AM, Bela Ban wrote:
>> The other thing to look at is the apparent cost of Thread.setName(): if
>> we cannot avoid thread many creations, we could experiment with *not*
>> naming threads, although this is IMO not a good idea.
>
> I agree that not naming the threads is a bad idea.
>
> The thread names are vital for debugging -- both in log messages and in
> thread dumps.
> Not naming the threads would lose a whole lot of information.

I agree. This was not meant to be changed in JGroups, it was just sth to 
try out to see whether perf gets better.

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Bela Ban, JGroups lead (http://www.jgroups.org)