Re: boost.log's text_multifile_backend is not performant on windows - perhaps it should be documented?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-03 20:28:30

Nicholas Neumann wrote:

> Unfortunately, the performance when using text_multifile_backend on
> windows is really bad, because the repeated file close operations (one per log
> record) are unusually slow on windows. Repeatedly logging a string to the
> same file via text_multifile_backend results in throughput of about 200 log
> entries per second.

That's probably a Windows Defender (or another antivirus) "feature". Not that
this helps.