Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] BASE_CUSTOM and 64-bit values
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From: David Arnold <davida@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:39:54 +0100
On 25/03/2013, at 10:23 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

> On 03/17/13 11:58, David Arnold wrote:

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>> My question then becomes one of consistency: should I do this for all my BASE_CUSTOM cases?   Or is there some advantage in using BASE_CUSTOM that I've missed (beyond saving a couple of lines of code)?
> 
> The advantage of BASE_CUSTOM is that the presentation is built only if/when it is needed (whereas the code you've done there obviously builds the presentation--and stores it--well before it is used).

And so this is likely to have reasonable impact on the speed of loading a capture file, or maximum live capture rate, right?

Is there any enthusiasm for a BASE_CUSTOM64?




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