On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:50:25AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> wrong. It is an interpreted bytecode, much slower than,
> say, approaches which translate individual filters into
> native machine code (DPT/DPF ? don't remember the exact reference,
> it was some usenix/sigcomm paper).
The fact that BPF does not currently synthesize into native instructions
is orthogonal to the BPF instruction set. On my long-term TODO list for
PACE (my packet classification engine) is a BPF -> CPU translator.
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