Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Performance. Ethereal is slow when usinglargec aptures.

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:43:00 -0600 (CST)
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:47:27PM -0600, Gerald Combs wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Guy Harris wrote:
> > 
> > > 	1) fast random access to arbitrary packets in compressed files;
> > 
> > The RAZip library at http://razip.sourceforge.net/ appears to provide
> > this.  Unfortunately, it's written in Java.
> 
> ...and uses a different format from gzip.

Oops.  I misread

"The RAZip bitstream format was designed to provide a faster
random access to compressed data than what is currently
possible using the GZIP format."

as

"The RAZip bitstream format was designed to provide a faster
random access to compressed data than what is currently
possible, using the GZIP format."