Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal performance, after Guy's changes ...

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From: didier <dgautheron@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:08:45 +0000
Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

I just checked in a patch that should make ip_to_str_buf() just slighly
berret than twice as fast it was
at the expense of ~2Kbyte extra memory.

It is not much but it was low hanging fruit and it might make ethereal ~1.5%
faster.
In itself not too much to write homa baout but if 50 optimizations like this
one is doen, it might
be noticeable.
I don't understand tap very well but rtp is always on ==> tree is never NULL in dissect_packet. 


Didider