Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Thread issues

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From: "Andreas Sikkema" <andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:57:16 +0200
ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The question can be rewritte into: does Ethereal call the dissectors
> only from one thread at the time or there's a chance (or will be a
> chance in future versions) that more than one thread will call the
> dissector function at the same time?

What is the advantage of having multithreaded dissection? Parallel 
processing of subsequent frames is a sure way of introducing 
problems when frame X+1 depends on information from frame X.

Multithreading the rest of the application is another matter of course.

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