Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal performance, after Guy's changes ...

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:00:31 +0100
| From: Guy Harris
| 
| On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:26:47PM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
| > You do not use any color filters.
| 
| Correct.  Not everybody does, so getting rid of the filter would still
| help.
| 
| However, it might be possible, with a summary list widget with a
| callback, to have the color set when a row is displayed - dissect the
| packet when the row is displayed and, if there's a color filter,
| construct a protocol tree, run the color filter, and color it then. 
| (Think of it as "lazy coloring".)

Do you agree if I interpret "lazy" as "efficient"? IMHO it makes no sense to
redissect *all* packets if we want to colorize the display with a color
filter.

Regards,

Olivier