Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Idea for faster dissection on second pas

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/10/13 18:22, Evan Huus wrote:
> It might be simpler and almost as efficient to have
> recently-successful heuristic dissectors bubble nearer to the top of
> the list so they are tried sooner. Port/conversation lookups are
> hash-tables for the most part and likely won't be made noticeably
> faster by caching.

Wouldn't that expose us to the risk that the dissection actually changes 
on the 2nd pass (because the call order of the heuristics changes)? 
That would look pretty weird...