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That's right, it doesn't get horrific until you use goto or yield (which don't exist in Javascript so they have to be emulated).

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Some browsers, and ES Harmony, have yield. You could add a compiler switch to use native support, although only Firefox seems to support this just now.

Curious to see how you managed the emulation - splitting up a function? Web workers? :)

for (;;), continue and switch.

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