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Rust vs DPDK: The New Packet IO Battleground: Revision history

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14 November 2025

  • curprev 04:4604:46, 14 November 2025 PC talk contribs 9,908 bytes +9,908 Created page with "There’s a moment every low-level network engineer remembers:
The first time you touch DPDK. You feel like you’ve unlocked the secret underbelly of the Linux kernel.
Then… you realize you also unlocked a world of pain: segmentation faults, pointer math, NUMA pinning bugs, and 20,000-line CMakeLists. Fast forward to 2025 — and something’s shifting. Rust isn’t just “memory safe” anymore. It’s becoming a contender for high-performance packet IO, standi..."