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		MuffinFlavored on Nov 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically > The problem with the “big switch-case” approach is that C/C++ compilers simply cannot handle such code well. Is this the case with Rust?

saagarjha on Nov 23, 2022 | [–]

Yes, it will run into the same register allocation and unstructured control flow issues.

johncolanduoni on Nov 23, 2022 | [–]

Most likely, as the pathological behavior the article mentions is mostly around register allocation and Rust uses LLVM.

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