Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal memory leakage fix and feature enhancement

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:16:03 -0700 (PDT)
> (performace simply sucks, if a 100MB trace file is loaded).

...which needs to be fixed (some profiling results suggest that the
heavy use of "printf"-family routines when generating the lines in the
packet list display contributes significantly to this; making
"ip_to_str()" and "ether_to_str()" generate the strings by hand helped a
bit, but not a lot - and the "printf"-family routines and stuff they
call still contributed a lot; Microsoft Network Monitor read in one
large trace file significantly faster than did Ethereal), but, at least
as a short-term workaround, it sounds as if a file-reading filter would
be useful.