Glossary
ALU Arithmetic logic unit: a subsystem of a CPU that processes arithmetic instructions.
API Application programming interface.
array A variable type that consists of a set of values, referenced by an integer index.
associative array A collection of values that are each assigned and retrieved using a unique key.
BCC BPF Compiler Collection: an open source software framework and toolkit for using BPF. See Chapter 4.
bpftrace An open source BPF-based tracer with a high-level programming language. See Chapter 5.
BPF Berkeley Packet Filter: a lightweight in-kernel technology from 1992 created for improving the performance of packet filtering and extended since 2014 to become a general-purpose execution environment (see eBPF).
BPF map An ...
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