Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RFD: New language to write dissectors

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> > From my perspective: I really use ~ 20 dissectors, why I need all of them?

Admittedly 99% of the time I normally only use 10-15 dissectors, but 
OTOH every once in a while I'll start Wireshark to figure out why my 
<insert service/application here> is <slow, not working, whatever> and 
it's nice that my Wireshark automatically decodes 
<service/application>'s traffic.

Anyway, what does it matter to me if there are 20 dissectors or 1000? 
Wireshark's startup time is still fairly fast[1].  Could it be faster? 
Sure, why not.  Do I care?  Not as much as making dissecting and 
filtering faster.

[1] On my *old* desktop it takes ~1.5 seconds between when I start the 
GUI though (manually) hitting Ctrl-Q and when the process exits. 
(Admittedly I probably ran it recently so most of the pages are in 
memory already.)