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To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Cc: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, src-committers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c
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"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.

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