Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal performance

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:44:26 -0800
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:15:37PM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> the cvs version of ethereal has for some testcases been seen to be
> approximately twice as fast as the 0.9.16 version.
> a capture that previously took 100 seconds to load  now only takes 50
> seconds.   your mileage will vary.

If you have color filters, a read filter, or a tap that uses filters
active while you're reading the file, the changes will make a big
difference; if you don't have color filters or a tap that uses filters
active, it probably won't make as big a difference - but it'll probably
make filtering the display faster, *ex post facto* colorizing the
display, or running a tap with a filter faster in either case.