Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Improving filter speed

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From: didier <dgautheron@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:25:01 +0000
ronnie sahlberg wrote:
That was from the packet-... .c patches   resetting tree to NULL to early.

Works now.
Ok.


To get wider testing i have checked it in.
(it does get a massive performance boost on huge captures so it should
be worth it no matter what as long as it is not impossible to get
right:-)


(if you spend 8 hours per day filtering and refiltering huge >1GB
captures   every day  ...  )

I understand this one, here I've improved filtering speed by a factor ten, but I cheat a little :)

Didier