You can kind of do it with function pointers, with the caveat that a jump table of function pointers is still going to have the cost of a function call. What yo

You can kind of do it with function pointers, with the caveat that a jump table of function pointers is still going to have the cost of a function call. What you can't do is something equivalent to: sta $1 jmp ($1) which just moves the PC forward by the offset stored in a register (I only know 6502 assembly, sorry everyone). There's no function call here, it's a goto where you calculate what label to go to at runtime. The closest C equivalent would be a switch/case; switch/case has the relative disadvantage that you have to make an explicit label to be targeted for each one, and it becomes difficult to express anything other than "the thing I'm jumping to is parameterized by only this one integer".