[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, that it can take a long time to build the tree is one thing,
but it is also causing the entire packetlist to be rescanned twice
when you select the packet.
i cant see why selecting the packet should cause a rescan of the packetlist.



On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:03:57 -0800 (PST), Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ronnie sahlberg said:
> > Note however   there seems to be a buglet making ethereal very
> > inefficient and consume a lot of CPU. This should be looked at...
> 
> When dissecting, or when constructing the packet data pane for a Really
> Big Image being downloaded?  If it's the latter, the buglet can, I
> suspect, be summarized as "the GTK+ text widgets aren't very efficient, so
> it takes a lot of CPU to fill one up with a lot of text".
> 
>