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Re: guile-vm-0.0


Carl R. Witty writes:
 > 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.

And each switch case branches directly to the next
switch case without having to go back up to the top
and down again.

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