Performance¶

structlog’s default configuration tries to be as unsurprising and not confusing to new developers as possible. Some of the choices made come with an avoidable performance price tag – although its impact is debatable.

Here are a few hints how to get most out of structlog in production:

Use plain dicts as context classes. Python is full of them and they are highly optimized:
```
configure(context_class=dict)
```
If you don’t use automated parsing (you should!) and need predicable order of your keys for some reason, use the key_order argument of KeyValueRenderer.
Use a specific wrapper class instead of the generic one. structlog comes with ones for the Python Standard Library and for Twisted:
```
configure(wrapper_class=structlog.stdlib.BoundLogger)
```
Writing own wrapper classes is straightforward too.
Avoid (frequently) calling log methods on loggers you get back from structlog.wrap_logger() and structlog.get_logger(). Since those functions are usually called in module scope and thus before you are able to configure them, they return a proxy that assembles the correct logger on demand.

Create a local logger if you expect to log frequently without binding:
```
logger = structlog.get_logger()
def f():
   log = logger.bind()
   for i in range(1000000000):
      log.info('iterated', i=i)
```
Set the cache_logger_on_first_use option to True so the aforementioned on-demand loggers will be assembled only once and cached for future uses:
```
configure(cache_logger_on_first_use=True)
```
This has the only drawback is that later calls on configure() don’t have any effect on already cached loggers – that shouldn’t matter outside of testing though.