Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Using treads for init routines at startup?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Anders Broman wrote:
> Could startup of Wireshark be speeded up by using treads for the  
> init routines in epan_init()?
If you mean "by running multiple init routines in parallel on a multi- 
core machine", then it should be possible to run multiple protocol  
init routines in parallel (assuming that any Wireshark core data  
structures they modify are thread-safe), and, once they're all done,  
it should be possible to run the handoff routines in parallel (with  
the same caveat).

Finding the right number of threads would be platform-dependent; more  
threads than cores, on non-multi-threaded processors, might not be  
useful - I don't know what the right thing to do on multi-threaded  
processors would be.