Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] VMS TCPIPtrace optimization

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:07:05 -0600 (CST)
Checked in.

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Marc Milgram wrote:

> 
> With the original code to read VMS TCPIPtraces, it took about 3 days to read
> a 92MB trace file.  By eliminating the calls to file_tell and file_seek from
> the main parsing loops, I could read that trace in about 5 minutes.
> 
> -Marc Milgram
> 
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