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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
-
- * 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
-
- * 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>`_
-
-For the supported architectures click next.