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On x64, GCC is supposed to use a a jump table with more than 4 cases when the cases are dense enough (gaps of 9 or less) to minimize wasted memory, otherwise it generates sequential comparisons. Testing on Godbolt, it looks like GCC 13.1 uses 10 cases as the jump table threshold for ARM64.


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