I have to say good job as well.
A trace I have been using with a million packets in it now only takes 59
seconds to decode, as opposed to 0.9.16 where it was at 1 minute 56
seconds!
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> I just want to salute all that are involved in and contributing big and
> small to improving the performance.
>
>
> Thanks to all.
>
>
> Please keep ideas, patches and profile data coming. We have already in just
> a few weeks made ethereal significantly faster than
> version 0.9.16.
>
>
> I just checked in patches for 2 pretty cheap fixes that made tethereal maybe
> 3% faster. Not much in itself but if we do 20 more of these 3% fixes
> it all adds up to something one can actually notice.
>
>
>
> Gerald, maybe there should be a temporary ethereal-performance mailing
> list for these activities? there are many interested and contributing and
> it would keep performance stuff from spamming/polluting the main developer
> list?
> Not everyone is really working with datasets large enough that performance
> is an important issue and performance related mailings are already taking up
> a large amount of the ethereal-dev traffic.
>
>
>
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