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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.