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Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen)

nathannaveen.dev published 2026-09-114 min read

My brother and I spent a lot of time designing our eBPF security agent to be really fast from the ground up, but recently we discovered we could make it much faster using memoization! A couple of weeks ago, I profiled the eBPF code and found that the most expensive part of the protection isn’t actually enforcing a…
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