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<div class="">On Oct 5, 2017, at 2:45 PM, Jim Mellander <<a href="mailto:jmellander@lbl.gov" class="">jmellander@lbl.gov</a>> wrote:</div>
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1. Obviously, branch prediction, as mentioned above. 3% speedup for (almost) free is nothing to sneeze at.</p>
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2. Profiling bro to identify other hot spots that could benefit from optimization.</p>
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3. Best practices for compiling Bro (compiler options, etc.)<br class="">
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4. Data structure revisit (hash functions, perhaps?)</p>
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Jon Siwek was optimizing the main event loop last February, but I believe it could only go so far without the new Broker API being integrated. Also, I believe there is a need to move off of the select() function. Anyway, there is definitely a lot of optimization
that could be made there.
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