Re: 5.1 a little slower than 5.0.2

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Mike Pall wrote:
> Modifying the VM to use the GCC
> "labels as values" feature (void *jumptab[]={&&opcode1,...} and
> goto *(jumptab[opcode])) would be an interesting experiment, though.
> But I think it may be difficult for register starved machines (i.e. x86)
> to keep all important variables (pc, base and maybe cl) in registers.

ISTR that I tried this modification in the 5.0beta timeframe
and the gain was only about 3% (x86)... a little disappointing.
--Adam