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

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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