Huh -- when I read this: > This pattern is hard to achieve in practice in a high level language, although you might have luck emulating it with gcc’s labels as

Huh -- when I read this: > This pattern is hard to achieve in practice in a high level language, although you might have luck emulating it with gcc’s labels as values functionality. it sounded familiar, and immediately made me wonder if it's the same as the 'direct threading' technique used in the BEAM VM under the hood that uses that gcc extension -- it sounds like it is, if I'm reading this right: https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#_dispatch_directly_threaded_code https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#_dispatch_directly_th... (A language based more or less on embracing context switches is of course funny company for an article about performance speed limits)