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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5821] Reduce per-packet memory requirements

Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:05:35 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5821

--- Comment #17 from Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-08-19 01:05:33 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> Supply the time delta values in the packet_info structure, and have
> epan_dissect_run() take additional nstime_t  * arguments for the absolute time
> stamps of the previous captured and displayed frames (pass in NULL if it's the
> first captured or dissected frame, and have the dissection process leave the
> delta columns blank and leave out the delta-time values in the protocol tree
> for the first frame, or set them to 0 if that looks too weird) and fill in
> those fields based on that?

I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but if we do this, than
COL_DELTA_TIME_DIS and COL_DELTA_TIME must be removed from
col_based_on_frame_data(), and text of these columns must be cached for
new_packet_list. I'm not sure if we save memory this way.

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