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Advanced iRules: Getting Started with iRules Procedures

As Colin so eloquently puts it in the procs overview on Clouddocs: "Ladies and gentlemen, procs are now supported in iRules!" Yes, the rumors are true. As of BIG-IP version 11.4, you can move all...
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What kind of performance impact is there from calling a proc, vs putting the functionality directly in the irule without using a proc? For stuff that is getting called on every HTTP request, would we noticed any extra overhead from using the procs?