fritzy/SleekXMPP — pull request #115 by vijayp (2011-11-19 19:35:00+00:00)
Title: huge performance improvement (remove unnecessary string creation)

This change stops sleekxmpp from spending huge amounts of time unnecessarily computing logging data that may never be used. This is a HUGE performance improvement; in some of my test runs, unnecessary string creation was accounting for > 60% of all CPU time.

Note that using % in a string will _always_ perform the sting substitutions, because the strings are constructed before the function is called. So log.debug('%s' % expensiveoperation()) will take about the same CPU time whether or not the logging level is DEBUG or INFO. if you use , no substitutions are performed unless the string is actually logged.