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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Startup speed up - remove dissectors?!

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:36:45 -0700
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:44:18AM +0530, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:

> My motivation is not the same... I'm more worried about the memory
> being used by wireshark, rather than the startup-time. Why load some
> of the bigger dissectors into memory if I'm never going to use them?

How much memory does a not-yet-used dissector use though?


Steve