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A comment on Extended BPF: A New Type of Software [pdf].

Re:Extended BPF: A New Type of Software [pdf] by aey on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:06AM (#21713433)
BPF is an awesome VM. A huge thanks to Brendan on the work he has done to make it usable outside the kernel.

We built a whole rust tool chain around it.

https://github.com/solana-labs/rust-bpf-sysroot https://github.com/solana-labs/rust-bpf-builder

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Re:Extended BPF: A New Type of Software [pdf] by throwaway894345 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:10PM (#21714034)
Can you elaborate on what makes it a good VM? I know very little about VMs, but I'm curious.
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Re:Extended BPF: A New Type of Software [pdf] by aey on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:32PM (#21717406)
It’s doesn’t have a stack pointer, just stack frames. So hardware that doesn’t implement a stack can execute BPF kernels.
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