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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 43908: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trun

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:56:49 +0200
Maybe just calling packet-data is the right way to go here?

 ciao
      Jörg

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:44:17AM +0000, martinm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=43908
> 
> User: martinm
> Date: 2012/07/21 09:44 PM
> 
> Log:
>  Calling tvb_format_text() for binary data segments (c1400 bytes) was
>  *very* slow (in a profiled run where FTP data is carried over LTE
>  MAC/RLC/PDCP/IP/TCP, this one function call was 20% of overall runtime).
>  
>  Have limited to call to ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH, as that is all that
>  will be displayed anyway.  As per comment, I'm not convinced that doing
>  this for binary FTP data segments is worthwhile at all.  It doesn't
>  even display as hex.
> 
> Directory: /trunk/epan/dissectors/
>   Changes    Path            Action
>   +6 -3      packet-ftp.c    Modified
> 
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