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From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:44:50AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote..
> * 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.,..?

and require the latest liquid nitrogen cooled 3 THz CPU.  Yes, indeed..

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org