Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Modifying the packet buffer in dissectors

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:27:45 -0700
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:16:25AM +0200, Bert Driehuis wrote:
> Errrr.... 'scuse me, but aren't cache lines supposed to be transparent
> to the code? Of course, you can bust caching efficiency, but getting
> wrong results is new to me.

I was using "unlucky" and "handles that well" to refer to performance,
not functionality (i.e, "that might be faster (unless you're unlucky and
it's slower because the copy code makes efforts not to bust the cache
but the decryption code doesn't)" - you get the right answer, but you
don't necessarily get it as fast as you'd like).