p4c
P4_16 reference compiler (by p4lang)
p4-applications
P4 Applications WG repo (by p4lang)
| p4c | p4-applications | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 635 | 104 | |
| 2.0% | 0.0% | |
| 9.7 | 0.0 | |
| 4 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C++ | P4 | |
| Apache License 2.0 | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
p4c
Posts with mentions or reviews of p4c.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-23.
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P4: Open-Source Programming Language for Protocol-Independent Packet Processing
You are exactly right. In fact, there are a number of approaches in this space: p4c-ebpf [0], p4c-xdp [1], and p4c-ubpf [2].
[0] https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/blob/main/backends/ebpf/README...
p4-applications
Posts with mentions or reviews of p4-applications.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-23.
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P4: Open-Source Programming Language for Protocol-Independent Packet Processing
Barefoot didn't die -- they were acquired by Intel, who has continued to invest in it with the development and introduction of Tofino 2.[0] Moreover, P4 is not/was not Barefoot alone; to take an example that's relevant to us, the P4 application working group working on the In-band Network Telemetry Dataplane Specification[1] includes participation from Alibaba, Arista, CableLabs, Cisco Systems, Dell, Intel, Marvell, Netronome, and VMware.
Disclosure: We are using both Intel Tofino 2 and P4 at Oxide and we (obviously?) think it's pretty interesting.
[0] https://www.servethehome.com/intel-tofino2-next-gen-programm...
[1] https://github.com/p4lang/p4-applications/blob/master/docs/I...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing p4c and p4-applications you can also consider the following projects:
p4c-xdp - Backend for the P4 compiler targeting XDP