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A JIT for packet filters

A JIT for packet filters

Posted Apr 14, 2011 10:24 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
Parent article: A JIT for packet filters

The obvious solution, of course, is to import LLVM into the kernel. Right?


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A JIT for packet filters

Posted Apr 14, 2011 17:48 UTC (Thu) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059) [Link]

One hopes that security/assurance concerns with a little JIT would be more manageable than with LLVM. Though you never know whether someone else's enthusiasm for importing <whatever> into the kernel might overrule such concerns.

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