2010/4/12 Jakub Zawadzki <[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> In wireshark there are some large value_string arrays.
> Some developers keep them sorted, some don't :)
>

Sort how? In some cases, wouldn't it make more sense to put the more
commonly used string near the top and perform a normal search?
I agree it makes sense when there's no knowledge about the distribution of
the strings.
Y.


> Dissectors in which value_string are sorted could be a little faster
> thanks to binary search.
>
> In attachment patch to introduce new 'fast' functions for value_string.
>
> Can this patch be commited? I don't know if I will have time to rewrite
> dissectors.
> Some time later it should be also possible to get rid of (hated)
> value_string NULL terminator.
>
>
> I'm also attaching sample dns_types rewrite.
>
> Cheers.
>
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