tableswitch does not use an array of offsets

[Yann Le Tallec]

I should have mentioned that my question is due to this other discussion:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15621083/why-does-java-switch-on-ordinal-ints-appear-to-run-faster-with-added-cases

On 27 March 2013 08:56, Yann Le Tallec <ylt at letallec.org> wrote:

> The code below is compiled as a tableswitch bytecode instruction as one
> would expect because the case values are contiguous. However, the JIT
> (Hotspot using JDK/JRE 1.7u17 64 bit on x86/Windows in either -server or
> -client mode) compiles it into a succession of cmp/je/jg.
>
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