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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] register all protocols by name

From: "Martin Mathieson" <martin.r.mathieson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:57:29 +0100
On 8/9/07, Luis EG Ontanon <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> shouldn't we just be registering by name all dissectors for once and for
> all?
>

I'd vote for that.  I'm sick of (and a little self-conscious about)
making individual dissectors findable by name - usually so that the
DCT2000 dissector can find protocol handles.

Presumably adding many more entries to the table would slow down the
lookup - would this likely to noticable?