Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Tips regarding measuring function execution times

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 15, 2017, at 11:54 PM, Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please keep in mind, that those are not very precise. High-resolution timer measurements cannot be done in a precise fashion on most windows systems for ethernet applications.

This isn't necessarily an Ethernet application; the tests he's running can probably even be run on a machine with no functioning network adapters, as they're probably "read in this capture file and see how much CPU time is being spent in particular functions", so packet time stamps are irrelevant.