Hi,
I think we should stay with the current policy of adding only bugfixes
to the stable branch.
The next development snapshot is scheduled to be released in Q4, 2009
[1] and this enhancement could be distributed in the snapshot.
In Debian, there is an ongoing discussion about allowing whole Wireshark
stable branch updates to enter Debian stable, but if we push new
functionality into the stable Wireshark branches, this does not seem to
be a good idea.
Cheers,
Balint
[1] http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Roadmap
Anders Broman wrote:
Hi,
As this enhancement is limited to one function and and not that much
code (I think ) it's still something to
consider as the benefits are great and it can be delivered within a
short timeframe.
I think we should be strict about new functionality but not rigid.
If we want the new packet list in 1.4 there's a lot of work left so a
new release might be many month away.
Regards
Anders
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[mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Jaap Keuter
*Sent:* den 26 augusti 2009 11:41
*To:* Developer support list for Wireshark
*Subject:* Re: [Wireshark-dev] Port Expert info changes to 1.2.2?
-Significant performance improvement.
Hi,
Yeah, i know it's good. Hence it should be the attraction for 1.4, not 1.2.
Otherwise where will it end?
Again a reason to release stable before sharkfest'10 ;)
Thanx,
Jaap
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On 26 aug 2009, at 10:41, "Anders Broman" <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi,
I've been doing some measurements on the improvements to the Export
info functions:
61 Mb file 159047 Packets 118 844 Errors (UDP checksum).
WS 1.2.1 Trunk Old packet list
Trunk New packet list
Load file: ~16s
~14s ~4s
Memory used: 232 812 kb 182 324 kb 131 716 kb
Start:
Expert info comp: 1.35s ~10s ~10s
Memory used: 299 028 241 336 kb 190 832 kb
Add
Expert info: 1.44s ~12s
~12s
Memory used: 363 244 kb 291 528 kb 241 032kb
As you can see there is a significant reduction in the time required
to load the expert data in trunk. Some of the gain is probably
Due to other changes but I still believe it would be worth it to port
this even if it's new functionality or is the old behavior a bug? ;-)
There is no significant change in memmory usage in expert infos.
Regards
Anders