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anaphor on Sept 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCC eBPF for Linux port has landed

Presumably it means you can write your eBPF source code and have it get compiled through GCC (meaning you get all of its optimizations, architecture targets, etc).

sigjuice on Sept 9, 2019 [–]

Isn’t eBPF the architecture target in this case, i.e. gcc will translate C (and/or others?) to eBPF?

anaphor on Sept 10, 2019 | [–]

eBPF is its own language as well that is (more or less) a subset of C, is my understanding, so presumably they can apply some of the same optimization / analysis to it as they would C code, right?

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