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>For instance if you want a CASE driven state machine in a critical
>interrupt handler, PL/M implements DO CASE as a jump indirect indexed
>off a short array of offsets, e.g. JMP CASETBL[BX]. C on the other hand
>does 'switch' as a full if-then/elseif-then/elseif-then... series.

I sincerely hope Intel's C compiler does not do so for *all* "switch"
statements; any competent C compiler can and will turn a "dense"
"switch" statement - i.e., one where the cases form a reasonably tight
range - into an indexded jump.  (The definition of "dense" varies from
compiler to compiler.)