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diff --git a/docs/overview/whatisvpp/developer.rst b/docs/overview/whatisvpp/developer.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 040762b01ba..00000000000 --- a/docs/overview/whatisvpp/developer.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -.. _developer-friendly: - -================== -Developer Friendly -================== - -This section describes the different ways VPP is friendly to developers: - -* 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>`_) - -* 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>`_ |