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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/29] ktap: add bytecode
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> That's designed for portability initially, it means we can just run bytecode
> without compile script file everywhere, especially when compilation  is
> a heavily task for some embedded platform, even though ktap compilation
> is extremely fast.
> 
> I doubt maybe there will have this bytecode portability requirement in future?

Portability should be on the source level.

-Andi

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