Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RFC: Protocol fields list (reduce memory usage)
From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 16:11:58 +0200
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 05:59:55AM +0200, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> Right nowe for every protocol we have linked list with protocols fields. This list in total takes about 1.5 MB 
> (more than 100K hf fields, 16 bytes on 64bits per GList).

To correct myself: GList is double-linked list so it takes 24 bytes, from r50967 we're using single linked list for protocol fields.
Still there's exactly 139 378 fields so 2,2 MB in total.

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