cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c

Wilko Bulte wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Tue Jun 7 10:43:41 GMT 2005


On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:35:22AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote..
> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> > Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au> writes:
> > > If people are using really large BPF programs, is there a benefit in
> > > moving from bytecode to machine code?
> > I'm sure there would be, but we wouldn't be compatible with everybody
> > else if we did so.
> 
> Sure we would.  There is no need to change the API, just compile the
> byte code to native machine code when the filter is loaded.

Suddenly smells like Java here ;)

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