Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4037] Automatically scrolling up

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:35:10 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4037

--- Comment #11 from Jim Young <jyoung@xxxxxxx> 2010-01-27 21:35:08 PST ---
> Did you mean "help reduce file loading *time*" or "help *increase* 
> file loading speed", or did I miss something?  It looks as if, with 
> the test patch, the files you tested with loaded *faster*:

Yes that was supposed to say *time*.  The "Test patch" helps the files load
faster!

> (As for the outliers - could it be that the lack of intermediate updates,
> whatever caused it, sped the load process up?)

That's what I was thinking. (And if so would it be a worthwhile to provide the
user an option to disable intermediate updates?)

This is the weird thing.  There really was nothing else chewing up any CPU
cycles on the laptop I was testing with.  I alternated files with each test (I
would choose the 2nd most recent file on each test).  I did eventually realize
that when an "outlier" would happen there was a subtle difference in how the
GUI responded to the click on the filename.  The first few times I was so
caught off guard with these outliers that I wasn't prepared to pause the
stopwatch!  In total I probably opened each file 50 times or so.  

Tomorrow evening I will to do some additional testing (perhaps with some bigger
files).  I want to replicate these results.

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