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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] check_col() depcreated?

From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:05:13 +0200
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 07:35:53AM +0200, didier wrote:
> But it still useful if there's very slow functions like snprintf,
> val_to_str, format_text and so on ie:

There's col_add_fstr() so there's no need of using snprintf().
But yeah C doesn't have lazy evaluation built-in, and there might be
some slowdowns.