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Re:Standardizing BPF by bheadmaster on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:10AM (#35653170)
Bytecode format itself is not interesting (PhantomOS runs Java bytecode, Inferno was a competitor to Java in the 90s), but the way it is executed.

Java runs bytecode in a VM as a userspace process, eBPF runs it in kernel space. That in itself is interesting.

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Re:Standardizing BPF by amelius on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:51PM (#35657493)
Does running in kernel space justify an entirely new bytecode?
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Re:Standardizing BPF by bheadmaster on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:37PM (#35658915)
Justify? I don't know. Require? I also don't know, but intuition tells me that it does, at least in the case of Linux.
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