On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:10 AM, bearophile <[email protected]> wrote: > JohnZ Wrote: >>In this case what would be the pros and cons if any of D compared with C or >>asm?< > > If you use C with GCC you can use the computed goto, that is really useful to > speed up an interpreter like a Forth one. D misses still such feature because > it was thought as not useful enough.
D turns many switch statements into computed gotos. It's a compiler optimization.
