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List:       wireshark-dev
Subject:    Re: [Wireshark-dev] Use shared libraries for dissectors?
From:       Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher ! com>
Date:       2012-06-29 19:30:05
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---- On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:23:07 -0600 Richard Sharpe  wrote ---- 

> One of the problems I see is that the startup time of Wireshark can be
> long because of the size of the Wireshark binary. There are a large
> number of protocols in Wireshark now, many of which I don't use. There
> is also the initialization time for each of those protocols.

This idea comes up from time to time, but it ends up being harder than you would \
think.  Here are some of the discussions from the archives:

    http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200711/msg00305.html

    http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201104/msg00298.html

I'm sure there are more.



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