[doctorsher]

You are exactly right. In fact, there are a number of approaches in this space: p4c-ebpf [0], p4c-xdp [1], and p4c-ubpf [2].

[0] https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/blob/main/backends/ebpf/README... [1] https://github.com/vmware/p4c-xdp [2] https://opennetworking.org/news-and-events/blog/p4c-ubpf-a-n...