--- /dev/null
+/*
+ * Attempt at using the goto label construct of GNU GCC:
+ * it turns out this does give some benefit: 5-15% speedup.
+ * Don't look at these macros, it hurts...
+ */
+#define GOTO_LABEL
+#undef GOTO_LABEL
+#ifdef GOTO_LABEL
+
+#define SWITCH(a) goto *goto_map [(a)];
+#define BREAK SWITCH(*ip)
+#define CASE(l) l ## _LABEL:
+#define DEFAULT \
+ CEE_ILLEGAL_LABEL: \
+ CEE_ENDMAC_LABEL:
+#define SUB_SWITCH \
+ CEE_PREFIX1_LABEL: \
+ CEE_ARGLIST_LABEL: \
+ CEE_CEQ_LABEL: \
+ CEE_CGT_LABEL: \
+ CEE_CGT_UN_LABEL: \
+ CEE_CLT_LABEL: \
+ CEE_CLT_UN_LABEL: \
+ CEE_LDFTN_LABEL: \
+ CEE_LDVIRTFTN_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED56_LABEL: \
+ CEE_LDARG_LABEL: \
+ CEE_LDARGA_LABEL: \
+ CEE_STARG_LABEL: \
+ CEE_LDLOC_LABEL: \
+ CEE_LDLOCA_LABEL: \
+ CEE_STLOC_LABEL: \
+ CEE_LOCALLOC_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED57_LABEL: \
+ CEE_ENDFILTER_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNALIGNED__LABEL: \
+ CEE_VOLATILE__LABEL: \
+ CEE_TAIL__LABEL: \
+ CEE_INITOBJ_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED68_LABEL: \
+ CEE_CPBLK_LABEL: \
+ CEE_INITBLK_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED69_LABEL: \
+ CEE_RETHROW_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED_LABEL: \
+ CEE_SIZEOF_LABEL: \
+ CEE_REFANYTYPE_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED52_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED53_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED54_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED55_LABEL: \
+ CEE_UNUSED70_LABEL:
+#define GOTO_LABEL_VARS \
+ const static void * const goto_map [] = {\
+#define OPDEF(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j) \ \
+ && a ## _LABEL, \
+#include "mono/cil/opcode.def" \
+#undef OPDEF \
+ &&DUMMY_LABEL \
+ }; \
+ DUMMY_LABEL:
+
+#else
+
+#define SWITCH(a) switch(a)
+#define BREAK break
+#define CASE(l) case l:
+#define DEFAULT \
+ default: \
+ g_error ("Unimplemented opcode: %x at 0x%x\n", *ip, ip-(unsigned char*)mh->header->code);
+#define SUB_SWITCH case 0xFE:
+#define GOTO_LABEL_VARS
+
+#endif