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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YAINT RED DA FUKIN STANDARD.

return do_foo();

do_foo DOESNT RETURN ANYTHING. I DNUNO WAT PLANET UR FROM BUT U KANT CONVERT NOTHING TO A FUKIN int!

typedef enum { ... } meta meta_t;

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U MEAN typedef enum { ... } meta_t;

I DUNNO WHO TAUGHT U HOW 2 PROGRAM BUT NEXT TIME U SHUD AT LEAST RUN UR PROGRAM THROUGH DA FUKIN COMPILER

N DATZ NOT ME TALKIN DATZ BARNEY FUKIN STROOTSTROOP! (DA DANISH ONE, JUNIOR)