Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Improving filter speed

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 03:46:18 -0700
ronnie sahlberg wrote:

I will try this weekend to do some real hard testing on this and see
if it is possible to implement a small semi-simple  ghashtable...
replacement (using the same names, same signature to be drop in
compatible)

...although "drop-in compatible" means "calls g_abort() if an attempt to allocate memory fails", and that's not necessarily a feature. It's perhaps a bit ugly to abort the dissection if a memory allocation fails, but it might be cleaner than dumping core....