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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Reverting proto_tree_reset()

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From: Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:05:24 +0000
 


>Troubles getting old patch applied are not a problem.
>
>It's just current version of
>  epan_dissect_reset() is like epan_dissect_clear() and
>  proto_tree_reset() is like proto_tree_clear()
>  from https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=1178
>
>  which I'm going to revert (so right now part of this bug is fixed)
>
>Primary question is why this patch was put in BTS, bug report is not very descriptive.
>
>If it's for optimization than my quick benchmarks shows it's not worthy.
>If for something else or you have other data, please share.

All information I got is in the Bug report, i.e virtually nothing :-)
It was part of a set of optimizations so I guess that was the intent.
So closing it is porobably the right thing to do.
Regards
Anders

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