Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:12:06 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c Message-ID: <20050607171206.GA46008@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050607134450.GH17867@elvis.mu.org> References: <97026.1118136400@critter.freebsd.dk> <863brucxwl.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050607104330.GA43541@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050607134450.GH17867@elvis.mu.org>
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:44:50AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote.. > * Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> [050607 03:43] wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:35:22AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote.. > > > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > > > > Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@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 ;) > > Wait, are we going to make bpf have a 128meg footprint and uh.,..? and require the latest liquid nitrogen cooled 3 THz CPU. Yes, indeed.. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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