Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal memory leakage fix and feature enhancement

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> (performace simply sucks, if a 100MB trace file is loaded).

...which needs to be fixed (some profiling results suggest that the
heavy use of "printf"-family routines when generating the lines in the
packet list display contributes significantly to this; making
"ip_to_str()" and "ether_to_str()" generate the strings by hand helped a
bit, but not a lot - and the "printf"-family routines and stuff they
call still contributed a lot; Microsoft Network Monitor read in one
large trace file significantly faster than did Ethereal), but, at least
as a short-term workaround, it sounds as if a file-reading filter would
be useful.