Developer Friendly

• Extensive runtime counters; throughput, intructions per cycle, errors, events etc.
• Integrated pipeline tracing facilities
• Multi-language API bindings
• Integrated command line for debugging
• Fault-tolerant and upgradable
  • 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 expierence is easier compared to similar kernel code
  • Hardware isolation and protection (iommu)
• Built for security
  • Extensive white-box testing
  • Image segment base address randomization
  • Shared-memory segment base address randomization
  • Stack bounds checking
  • Static analysis with Coverity