Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethrereal-dev] packet-smb.c

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:58:48 -0700 (PDT)
> The reason was basically performance.  Value_string searches are O(n)

Yes, I know, but does "match_strval()" take up a significant amount of
time when reading/filtering/printing/etc.  a capture file?  What does a
profiling run indicate?