It's odd that this is your area of interest and yet you don't know of the commonly-used direct/indirect threading techniques. Many interpreters, including a fam

It's odd that this is your area of interest and yet you don't know of the commonly-used direct/indirect threading techniques. Many interpreters, including a famously fast one [1], use them, and benchmarks have repeatedly shown it to be a significant gain [2]. [1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html [2] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-efficient-dispatch-tables https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-e...