diff --git a/api/src/main/java/com/google/common/flogger/AbstractLogger.java b/api/src/main/java/com/google/common/flogger/AbstractLogger.java
index 4ecaa515..bfc0fdce 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/com/google/common/flogger/AbstractLogger.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/com/google/common/flogger/AbstractLogger.java
@@ -49,14 +49,17 @@ protected AbstractLogger(LoggerBackend backend) {
    * Returns a fluent logging API appropriate for the specified log level.
    * <p>
    * If a logger implementation determines that logging is definitely disabled at this point then
-   * this method is expected to return a "no-op" implementation of the logging API, which will
+   * this method is expected to return a "no-op" implementation of that logging API, which will
    * result in all further calls made for the log statement to being silently ignored.
    * <p>
-   * Typically an implementation of this method in a concrete subclass would look like:
+   * A simple implementation of this method in a concrete subclass might look like:
    * <pre>{@code
-   *  return isLoggable(level) ? new Context(level): NO_OP;
+   * boolean isLoggable = isLoggable(level);
+   * boolean isForced = Platform.shouldForceLogging(getName(), level, isLoggable);
+   * return (isLoggable | isForced) ? new SubContext(level, isForced) : NO_OP;
    * }</pre>
-   * where {@code NO_OP} is a singleton, no-op instance of the logging API.
+   * where {@code NO_OP} is a singleton, no-op instance of the logging API whose methods do nothing
+   * and just {@code return noOp()}.
    */
   public abstract API at(Level level);
 
diff --git a/google/src/main/java/com/google/common/flogger/GoogleLogger.java b/google/src/main/java/com/google/common/flogger/GoogleLogger.java
index 036ac6b8..9df3f9a8 100644
--- a/google/src/main/java/com/google/common/flogger/GoogleLogger.java
+++ b/google/src/main/java/com/google/common/flogger/GoogleLogger.java
@@ -69,8 +69,19 @@ public static GoogleLogger forInjectedClassName(String className) {
     super(loggerBackend);
   }
 
+  @SuppressWarnings("ShortCircuitBoolean")
   @Override
   public Api at(Level level) {
+    // Important: This code is the "hottest" code path in Flogger. It is called for all log
+    // statements or log level checks reached by user code. The overwhelming number of callers to
+    // this method will be non-loggable and return the singleton "no op" API. Profiling of server
+    // side applications shows that approximately 80% of the total CPU usage associated with this
+    // method is used for cases where logging will not occur, so any changes must be optimized for
+    // that case. In-particular no allocation should ever occur for "disabled" log statements.
+    //
+    // In systems where log statements are stripped from code at build time, this obviously
+    // dramatically affects the ratio of enabled to disabled log statements, but in those cases,
+    // the cost of this method is trivial compared to the work of actually logging.
     boolean isLoggable = isLoggable(level);
     boolean isForced = Platform.shouldForceLogging(getName(), level, isLoggable);
     return (isLoggable || isForced) ? new Context(level, isForced) : NO_OP;