[spacemanaki]

Hey, so while we're talking about it, what WOULD be some good resources on the internet (and maybe in books) for understanding "this sort of thing" better? I assume "this sort of thing" is runtimes, VMs, compilers, languages, dynamic and otherwise?

Rich Hickey's Clojure bookshelf includes Lisp in Small Pieces, which I've read most of, and I understand is sort of the go-to Lisp implementation book nowadays, but is possibly out of date for compilers in general. It also includes Essentials of Programming Languages (2nd ed?), Concepts Techniques and Models, the T Programming Language book, the JVM spec... but are there other books that would be crucial to enabling someone to open up the Clojure source and understand some of the optimizations or understand some of the issues re: dynamic languages on the JVM, compiling dynamic languages, and/or making dynamic languages fast in general (see SBCL)?

I know there's "Clojure in Small Pieces" which aims to be some kind of literate treatment of the Clojure source, but I think that's a WIP last time I checked.

Thanks!

edit gee look at this, I commented without looking at the rest of the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2927784