Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal performance results compared to offic ial 0.9.16 release

[Ian Schorr <spamcontrol2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about without profiling?  Profiling definitely slows things down - 
during some testing in Linux Ethereal was about 3 times slower than 
without...

Biot Olivier wrote:

> [Message resent - pls ignore if received twice]
>
> Forgot to mention:
>
> Official 0.9.16 Win32 release (without profiling data of course) is about
> twice as fast as the same release built with cygwin (with profiling data):
> 12 seconds without colorfilters, 13 seconds with color filters!
>
> | Performance
> | ===========
> | 
> | 1. Official 0.9.16 release
> | --------------------------
> | 1.1 No colorfilters
> | 1st read / Filter on "frame" / reset filter (seconds): 22 / 21 / 20
> | 1.2 Colorfilters
> | 1st read / Filter on "frame" / reset filter (seconds): 23 / 25 / 23
> | 
> | 2. Current CVS snapshot (with PCRE support)
> | -------------------------------------------
> | 1.1 No colorfilters
> | 1st read / Filter on "frame" / reset filter (seconds): 7 / 11 / 7
> | 1.2 Colorfilters
> | 1st read / Filter on "frame" / reset filter (seconds): 13 / 13 / 13
> | 
> | Conclusion:
> | If no color filters are applied, current Ethereal runs 2 to 3 
> | times faster
> | than 0.9.16.
> | If my color filters are applied, current Ethereal runs about 
> | twice as fast
> | as 0.9.16.
>
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