Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal optimizations (proposals)

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 08:23:33 +1100
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From: "Guy Harris"
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal optimizations (proposals)


> That's the major problem - another potential problem is that
> "g_node_append()" is, I think, linear in the length of the list to
> which it's appending, which means that there's some N^2 behavior; this
> shows up in some very big packets that take many many seconds to be
> disssected.

I have seen that as well, some huge reassembled PDUs take an unproportional
long time to parse.

I will look at that one tonight.