Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] File (jpg/gif) reassembly

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:03:57 -0800 (PST)
ronnie sahlberg said:
> Note however   there seems to be a buglet making ethereal very
> inefficient and consume a lot of CPU. This should be looked at...

When dissecting, or when constructing the packet data pane for a Really
Big Image being downloaded?  If it's the latter, the buglet can, I
suspect, be summarized as "the GTK+ text widgets aren't very efficient, so
it takes a lot of CPU to fill one up with a lot of text".