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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] startup time benchmarks

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:40:08 -0600
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 02:22:12PM +0200, Luis EG Ontanon wrote:

> could you be so kind as to measure the time it takes to:
> 
> $ time tshark -r empty_file.cap
> $ time tshark -r empty_file.cap xml.comment
> 
> I'll ask you again after I commit xml changes

How empty do you want the capture file?  Tshark doesn't seem to like a 0 
byte file.


Steve