[Info-vax] Fortran

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 12/5/2018 4:01 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>Why would it be that slow?
>
>It seems to fit nicely with a VAX CASEL instruction.
>
>But even without it then it would just be calculating an
>index into the address array and jump to that.

Computed GO TO is normally calculated and the address looked up from a symbol
table at runtime.  Just like FORMAT statements are handled at runtime.  I
guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Because... you could be jumping to any line number anywhere in the whole
program.   
--scott
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