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Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch
From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames () darkjames ath cx>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:38:57 +0200
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:20:46PM +0300, Kaul wrote:
In some cases, wouldn't it make more sense to put the more commonly used string near the top and perform a normal search?
Maybe (wireshark is used in so many different environments and smth which is common in network A, might not be in network B) I think also it makes small sense to use value_string_fast with less than 16 or 32 (or even 64) entries. Anyway I would keep linear search API and make dissector developer decide. I thought about binary search when I tried to fix bug #594 [1] with value_string array [2]. There're about 5k entries for tcp services. [1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=594 [2] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=4324 ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Jakub Zawadzki (Apr 11)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Kaul (Apr 12)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Jakub Zawadzki (Apr 12)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Anders Broman (Apr 20)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Jakub Zawadzki (Apr 22)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Anders Broman (Apr 22)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Jakub Zawadzki (Apr 12)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Kaul (Apr 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Ed Beroset (Apr 22)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Jakub Zawadzki (Apr 22)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Anders Broman (Apr 23)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Maynard, Chris (Apr 23)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Anders Broman (Apr 23)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Jakub Zawadzki (Apr 23)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Anders Broman (Apr 23)
- Re: RFC: sorted value_string + bsearch Jakub Zawadzki (Apr 22)