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Re:Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code by WGH_ on Thursday December 09, 2021 @09:03AM (#29497404)
There's also "computed gotos". It's not the same as function pointers, though.

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-e... - article about them being used in CPython

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Re:Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code by MaxBarraclough on Sunday December 12, 2021 @05:42PM (#29534446)
Gforth uses the same trick. https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html
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