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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch

From: Ed Beroset <beroset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:47:14 -0400 (EDT)
Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Use g_hastable_new_full() gint version and stuff the value_string into the hash table
>In proto_register, then have proto.c extract the value. Alternatively we could perhaps
>Pass a "get_value" function pointer?
> I'm not sure this will work :-)

I may have missed it, but have we measured to see if this is worth optimizing in the first place?  Does this actually take an appreciable amount of time?  If not, I think I'd favor choosing code clarity over an inconsequential speedup.

Ed