cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:42, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > 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..

A memory pig it is, but slow it is not.
It can certainly beat GCC in straight arithmetic if you use a JIT..

JIT techniques are pretty interesting outside of Java too, eg Dynamo, and 
Valgrind.

Could be useful for BPF and firewall rules :)

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