1. A method, comprising: receiving packets comprising an ingress traffic flow at a network element; bifurcating processing of the packets to an egress traffic processor and a computation processor; performing egress traffic flow operations at the egress traffic processor, the egress traffic flow operations assigning the packets to an egress traffic flow; and performing traffic analysis operations at the computation processor concurrently with the egress traffic flow operations, the traffic analysis operations generating traffic analysis data corresponding to the ingress traffic flow.