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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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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>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c
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* 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.,..?

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