On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Anders Broman wrote:
Could startup of Wireshark be speeded up by using treads for the
init routines in epan_init()?
If you mean "by running multiple init routines in parallel on a multi-
core machine", then it should be possible to run multiple protocol
init routines in parallel (assuming that any Wireshark core data
structures they modify are thread-safe), and, once they're all done,
it should be possible to run the handoff routines in parallel (with
the same caveat).
Finding the right number of threads would be platform-dependent; more
threads than cores, on non-multi-threaded processors, might not be
useful - I don't know what the right thing to do on multi-threaded
processors would be.
