so JIT, WOW

This is so amazing I don't want to lose it:


A Smalltalk-80 VM written in LuaJIT, that boots the images from the eighties:
https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk#a-smalltalk-80-interpreted-virtual-machine-on-luajit

Approachable tutorial on JITs. The second part talks about metatracing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23740655

I recently discovered this guy and he's awesome. Haven't particularly examined this repo, but please, also check out his other stuff.
https://github.com/spencertipping/jit-tutorial