About Suricata performance boost between 1.0 and 1.1beta2
Discovering the performance boost When doing some coding on both 1.0 and 1.1 branch of suricata, I’ve remarked that there was a huge performance improvement of the 1.1 branch over the 1.0 branch. The parsing of a given real-life pcap file was taking 200 seconds with 1.0 but only 30 seconds with 1.1. This performance boost was huge and I decide to double check and to study how such a performance boost was possible and how it was obtained: ...