@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ namespace NLog.Targets
         public ChainsawTarget()
         {
             IncludeNLogData = false;
+            OptimizeBufferReuse = GetType() == typeof(ChainsawTarget);
         }
 
         /// <summary>
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namespace NLog.Targets
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Sends log messages to the remote instance of Chainsaw application from log4j. 
    /// </summary>
    /// <seealso href="https://github.com/nlog/nlog/wiki/Chainsaw-target">Documentation on NLog Wiki</seealso>
    /// <example>
    /// <p>
    /// To set up the target in the <a href="config.html">configuration file</a>, 
    /// use the following syntax:
    /// </p>
    /// <code lang="XML" source="examples/targets/Configuration File/Chainsaw/NLog.config" />
    /// <p>
    /// This assumes just one target and a single rule. More configuration
    /// options are described <a href="config.html">here</a>.
    /// </p>
    /// <p>
    /// To set up the log target programmatically use code like this:
    /// </p>
    /// <code lang="C#" source="examples/targets/Configuration API/Chainsaw/Simple/Example.cs" />
    /// <p>
    /// NOTE: If your receiver application is ever likely to be off-line, don't use TCP protocol
    /// or you'll get TCP timeouts and your application will crawl. 
    /// Either switch to UDP transport or use <a href="target.AsyncWrapper.html">AsyncWrapper</a> target
    /// so that your application threads will not be blocked by the timing-out connection attempts.
    /// </p>
    /// </example>
    [Target("Chainsaw")]
    public class ChainsawTarget : NLogViewerTarget
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ChainsawTarget" /> class.
        /// </summary>
        public ChainsawTarget()
        {
            IncludeNLogData = false;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ChainsawTarget"/> class with a name.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">Name of the target.</param>
        public ChainsawTarget(string name) : this()
        {
            Name = name;
        }
    }
}

Why not just true? Because of custom sub classes?