Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] About a faster wireshark

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:08:29 +0200
Didier wrote:
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:20:36 +0200, Jaap Keuter wrote
Hi,

One of the design goals of the Wireshark code base is portability. This proposal seems to revolve around platform and compiler specific hacks, contradicting this principle. So it will probably remain a
It's not, (ok there's four or five lines which are gcc/glibc).
Well, that is interesting. Then we must have a look and see what valuable improvements there are.

seperate patch, not included in trunk. What do you propose on maintenance of this patch? If it's not in trunk, I see no one
I'm already doing it for a couple of years.
Yeah, but since it's a community thing I was more thinking about that, i.s.o. the original author.

picking it up and maintain it. There's another patch in the Wiki (can you find it?) which I doubt anyone has used. What would be great if usable portions could be extracted from your patch and added to trunk. These will have to be portable though.

Well bugzilla doesn't like me (:

URL: http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi
undef error - Undefined subroutine Fh::slice at
data/template/template/en/default/global/hidden-fields.html.tmpl line 58

When trying to attach a one line patch.
Hmm, better follow the suggestion of Anders and post it on the Wiki.

Thanx,
Jaap