VM instruction implementation without huge switch()?

How would one go about making a virtual machine without using a huge and clumsy switch( opcode ) statement?

The architecture I'm implementing (DCPU-16) has about 35-40 different instructions.

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he's an idiot/liar. nothing he says is correct. He's just guessing to try to sound smart at the smart peoples table (/prog/).

This shit never used to happen on old /prog/, we just knew that everybody only spoke when they had something of value to contribute and nobody would recommend anything if they had not actually done it themselves and performed the measurements.

Todays nu-/prog/ is full of the same cancer that filled up IRC channels on freenode. Casuals that make 'witty' little remarks with no content to look smart in front of everybody else. The real wizards are long gone. What a tragedy.