Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] register all protocols by name

["Luis EG Ontanon" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

lookups are for most cases done once at registration... so I do not
think it is much impact.

On 8/9/07, Martin Mathieson <martin.r.mathieson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Luis EG Ontanon <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > shouldn't we just be registering by name all dissectors for once and for
> > all?
> >
>
> I'd vote for that.  I'm sick of (and a little self-conscious about)
> making individual dissectors findable by name - usually so that the
> DCT2000 dissector can find protocol handles.
>
> Presumably adding many more entries to the table would slow down the
> lookup - would this likely to noticable?
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