Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] tcg: Add interpreter for bytecode

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/18/2011 07:49 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Is there really any difference in the generated code?
> gcc already uses a jump table internally to handle the
> switch cases.

You typically save something on range checks, and it enables a lot more 
tricks for use later (e.g. using multiple jump tables to perform simple 
peephole optimizations, or to divert code execution on interrupts).

Paolo