Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Performance. Ethereal is slow when usinglargec aptures.

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:03:23 -0800
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:47:27PM -0600, Gerald Combs wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > 	1) fast random access to arbitrary packets in compressed files;
> 
> The RAZip library at http://razip.sourceforge.net/ appears to provide
> this.  Unfortunately, it's written in Java.

...and uses a different format from gzip.

I think bzip format is also better - they reset the dictionary on chunk
boundaries, or something such as that, so you don't need to keep
checkpoints of the directory.