On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Juergen Boemmels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Have a small number of _real_ core.ops which have fixed assigned
> > numbers below say 256.
>
> The problem with this approach is the JIT/EXEC subsystem. Dynamically
> loaded oplibs and JIT don't play together. To make this work, it would
> need probably a total rewrite of JIT code.
> The switched core has some overhead too, you can't expand a switch
> statement like the other table based opcode dispatches.
The switched core's not that big a deal for this -- the default: case just
does a lookup in the table and dispatch that way.
Dan
