yes. we used to have 2 threads in the old ethereal for a short period.
one thread for the main application and a second thread that was dedicated to only update/redraw teh statistics taps once every few seconds. this did cause a quite significant degradation in performance/speed of ethereal which is why it was removed :-( On 11/8/06, Ulf Lamping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerald Combs wrote: > > Is there any reason threads shouldn't be enabled by default? It would > > make implementing the version checking and windows update features in > > the roadmap a bit easier and cleaner. > > > Sorry, but I don't really understand the relationship - can you explain > what you mean? > > When I remember correct, the threading support wasn't working well with > GTK2.4, but that might have changed since then. > > Regards, ULFL > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev > _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
