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It is an actual branch - just because it has a special instruction is an implementation detail. In computer science there is no difference between throwing an e
by akvadrako 9y ago
It is an actual branch - just because it has a special instruction is an implementation detail. In computer science there is no difference between throwing an error and skipping the rest of the instructions in the stack.
If you wrote a vm with a cpu simulation you would implement it as a branch.