On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:29:11PM +0100, didier wrote:
> There's still some small stuff which could go but It would only improve
> wireshark speed by 20-40%, I'm not sure it's worth the time.
It most likely is.
> A big change is the per packet protocols bitfield but even if it's in
> rather good shape it triggers a lot of existing bugs in dissectors,
> breaks plugins (I changed hfinfo structure) and so on.
That's not a problem any more: Changing the hinfo structure in the 1.1 tree
is perfectly ok - we created the "stable" trees like 1.0 (and eventually 1.2)
that guarantee a fixed API/ABI during the lifetime of these branches, but
not between them.
Ciao
Joerg
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