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Re:A Love Letter to FreeBSD by bluGill on Monday December 01, 2025 @11:36AM (#46109444)
You didn't save anything as everyone needs to know the new extension before anyone can use it.

Hardware is important - fast routers can't do work in the CPU (and it was even worse in the mid 90's when this started), they need special hardware assistance.

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Re:A Love Letter to FreeBSD by arthurfirst on Monday December 01, 2025 @01:17PM (#46110857)
All good points guys -- but my point was to see what is possible. And it was. And it was fun! Of course I know it will perform poorly and it's not hardware.
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