On Oct 30, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Evan Huus <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Matthieu Patou <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Also is it possible to remember the dissection of packet so that we don't do
>> it again and again ?
> 
> It is quite possible, it just takes an enormous amount of memory.

Wireshark (or, as it was called at the time, Ethereal) dissectors originally 
directly produced a GTK+ tree widget structure, rather than a protocol tree 
later used to produce the display tree.  The first implementation that produced 
a separate protocol tree had a bug wherein the trees weren't getting freed; I 
noticed that when reading in a large file got *really* slow and the machine 
started thrashing.
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