Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:43:31 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c Message-ID: <20050607104330.GA43541@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <863brucxwl.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <97026.1118136400@critter.freebsd.dk> <863brucxwl.fsf@xps.des.no>
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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 ;) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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