Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Modularity for packet decoders

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:26:03 -0700
> Some future decoders decoding may be be very time consuming e.g decrypting 
> encrypted stuff.
> In order to increase speed it would be good to have a parameter in the
> dissect routine which says if it's called for a full decode (for the tree 
> view, filter ? or packet print) or a less complete decode for the packet 
> list view (without having to parse the whole packet in full detail).

We already have that - if the "tree" argument to the dissect routine is
NULL, only a summary decode is required, not a complete decode.