Re: [PATCH]: Add new bytecode op `switch' for implementing branch tables.

[Vibhav Pant]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Stefan Monnier
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> Hmm... so goto-if-nil is never used any more?  Aren't there cases where
> byte-switch results in slower code than goto-if-nil?

Once linear search for gethash when the number of keys are small is
implemented, byte-switch should still be faster, as all byte-goto-if-nil
and byte-goto-if-nil-else-pop bytecode is "replaced" with native linear
search code.

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Vibhav Pant
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