Suricata’s developers harp on a lot of different issues, some of which are valid, and some are simply wrong. If multi-threading were the answer, the industry would have moved there in short order, the author says. The developers are judged on both detection accuracy and speed. No report about an IDS engine comes out that doesn’t identify how many GB/s throughput the engine was capable of sustaining. The engine was able to support high performance multi-core and multiprocesser systems, Jonkman said.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2010/07/innovation-you-keep-using-that-word.html