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Re: guile-vm-0.0


Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

> Wow, I didn't expect this.  When I first read about GCC's support for
> computed gotos and that they canb be used to write very fast virtual
> machines, I thought, come on, how much can that be?  I mean, a switch
> isn't exactly slow either.  But...

For one thing, you can't get rid of the bounds-check on a switch.

Carl Witty

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