Guy Harris wrote:
> At least at one point, I seem to remember reading that the GtkTreeView 
> was changed in GTK+ 2.4 to deal with a performance issue.  A little 
> searching indicated that this was the addition of a "fixed height" 
> option, so it didn't have to calculate the height of every single row:
> 
>       http://lists.wxwidgets.org/pipermail/wx-dev/2006-October/078556.html
> 
> which would probably be OK for the packet list if we were to switch to 
> using a GtkTreeView, which would let us change the columns without 
> destroying the packet list and reconstructing it, and would also let us 
> avoid allocating strings for the content of all rows and columns by 
> having a tree model that dissects packets on the fly (that requires 
> support for fast random access to packets even in compressed files, but 
> that's probably doable).

*That* is certainly a good reason to go to GTK 2.4+ . :-)
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