Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Performance. Ethereal is slow when using largecaptures.

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:04:02 -0800
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:29:21PM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> 1, We need to remember all COL values for all packets so that we can just
> reapply them when adding the packet to the packetlist without calling the
> dissector and recreating them that way.   This will consume additional
> memory.

Note that sometimes col values change on a redissection, e.g. if a
protocol preference is changed or if the display format for the time
changes.

Note also that it will probably consume a significant amount of memory -
in fact, it already *does* consume a significant amount of memory,
because the GtkClist for the summary pane keeps strings for all the
values.