Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:35:22 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, src-committers@freebsd.org, "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c Message-ID: <863brucxwl.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <97026.1118136400@critter.freebsd.dk> (Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:26:40 %2B0200") References: <97026.1118136400@critter.freebsd.dk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"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. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?863brucxwl.fsf>