Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Conversation/Endpoint list performance patch

[Ian Schorr <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Did you keep in mind, that the address resolvings might change data being displayed? Is this done by the 3 seconds update?
>  
Of course not.  =)

I'll re-write the patch.  I haven't checked with a conversation with a 
*huge* number of hosts/conversations (thousands), but in my testing I 
see very little performance difference if I go ahead and have it update 
addresses for all entries in the list versus not as long as I keep the 
clist frozen while performing the update.  Since the 3s update all rows 
are updated anyway and I don't think the draw_xxx_table_addresses 
routine is very costly as long as no clist redraws occur as a result, I 
think it will scale well if I leave this simple and put back in your 
original method (but freezing the clist until the updates are complete).

Ian