D for projects similar to Forth Interpreters?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:10 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> JohnZ Wrote:
>>In this case what would be the pros and cons if any of D compared with C or asm?<
>
> If you use C with GCC you can use the computed goto, that is really useful to speed up an interpreter like a Forth one. D misses still such feature because it was thought as not useful enough.

D turns many switch statements into computed gotos.  It's a compiler
optimization.