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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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