From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:22:54 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] Comments on "C"
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Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     > 1.  Computed goto
>
> Can't you make a switch statement do what you need there?

Interesting comments on how effectively CPUs and compilers handle inner
loops of interpreters:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426

Lots more research on interpreter efficiency:

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/interpreters.html

Tony.
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