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@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ tcpdump so as to avoid useless copies to user-space. It was ported to Linux,
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where it evolved into eBPF (_extended_ BPF), a faster version with more
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features. While BPF programs are originally intended to run in the kernel, the
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virtual machine of this crate enables running it in user-space applications;
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-it contains an interpreter as well as a x86_64 JIT-compiler for eBPF programs.
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+it contains an interpreter, a x86_64 JIT-compiler for eBPF programs, as well as
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+a disassembler.
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It is based on Rich Lane's [uBPF software](https://github.com/iovisor/ubpf/),
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which does nearly the same, but is written in C.
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@@ -563,9 +564,9 @@ details.
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## Inspired by
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* [uBPF](https://github.com/iovisor/ubpf), a C user-space implementation of an
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- eBPF virtual machine, with a JIT-compiler (and also including assembler and
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- disassembler from and to the human-readable form of the instructions, such as
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- in `mov r0, 0x1337`), by Rich Lane for Big Switch Networks (2015)
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+ eBPF virtual machine, with a JIT-compiler and disassembler (and also
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+ including the assembler from the human-readable form of the instructions,
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+ such as in `mov r0, 0x1337`), by Rich Lane for Big Switch Networks (2015)
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* [_Building a simple JIT in
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Rust_](http://www.jonathanturner.org/2015/12/building-a-simple-jit-in-rust.html),
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Quentin Monnet