banishing pointers in static domains

I’m wondering if an index+switch scheme would have a prohibitive performance impact. Would avoid the problem of having to suppress optimizations and in fact they’d likely be welcomed - devirtualization in the kernel wow!

I’m not sure how to resolve the “C files are compiled separately” thing - *waves hand* linker magic? More hand waving for loadable modules.

Perhaps there would be compensating memory savings - eg. use a u8 instead of a pointer for each function pointer member, modulo alignment/atomicity. 2^8 possible functions per signature ought to be enough for anyone ey?