| .. _developer-friendly: |
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| Features for Developers |
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| This section describes a little about the VPP environment and some of the features |
| that can be used by developers. |
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| * Extensive runtime counters; throughput, `intructions per cycle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_cycle>`_, errors, events etc. |
| * Integrated pipeline tracing facilities |
| * Multi-language API bindings |
| * Integrated command line for debugging |
| * Fault-tolerant and upgradable |
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| * Runs as a standard user-space process for fault tolerance, software crashes seldom require more than a process restart. |
| * Improved fault-tolerance and upgradability when compared to running similar packet processing in the kernel, software updates never require system reboots. |
| * Development experience is easier compared to similar kernel code |
| * Hardware isolation and protection (`iommu <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_management_unit>`_) |
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| * Built for security |
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| * Extensive white-box testing |
| * Image segment base address randomization |
| * Shared-memory segment base address randomization |
| * Stack bounds checking |
| * Static analysis with `Coverity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverity>`_ |
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| For the supported architectures click next. |