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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 961 days ago
"But there is a better trick that we can use that is more space efficient than this table, and is sometimes called a computed goto."

From 1989:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spitbol/x32/master/docs/sp...

"Indirection in the Goto field is a more powerful version of the computed Goto which appears in some languages. It allows a program to quickly perform a multi-way control branch based on an item of data."