Relevant example case is in a branching interpreter dispatch loop vs compiling threaded code, and all the hybrid concepts in between: https://en.m.wikipedia.or

Relevant example case is in a branching interpreter dispatch loop vs compiling threaded code, and all the hybrid concepts in between: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code It's a very old CS construct where right answers depend on the environment. In many modern structured languages you don't have a goto at hand so you're ushered towards switch statements, but then you can opt to do weird things like throw an exception and use the handler to jump.