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DiThi on Oct 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust to WebAssembly Made Easier

Unstructured control flow is easily emulated with switch statements. In fact it's what emscripten did long before asm.js was made, IIRC.

TazeTSchnitzel on Oct 23, 2017 [–]

Emscripten has a specially-designed algorithm called relooper for reconstructing control flow (there’s a paper on it!). Switch statements are its last resort.

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