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BPF is an awesome VM. A huge thanks to Brendan on the work he has done to make it usable outside the kernel. We built a whole rust tool chain around it. https
by aey 7y ago
BPF is an awesome VM. A huge thanks to Brendan on the work he has done to make it usable outside the kernel.
We built a whole rust tool chain around it.
https://github.com/solana-labs/rust-bpf-sysroot https://github.com/solana-labs/rust-bpf-sysroot
https://github.com/solana-labs/rust-bpf-builder https://github.com/solana-labs/rust-bpf-builder
- throwaway894345 7y agoCan you elaborate on what makes it a good VM? I know very little about VMs, but I'm curious.
- aey 7y agoIt’s doesn’t have a stack pointer, just stack frames. So hardware that doesn’t implement a stack can execute BPF kernels.