I'm not sure you can refactor away the complexity of LuaJIT. It will always end up somewhere as a complete jit'ing compiler with no external dependencies just i

I'm not sure you can refactor away the complexity of LuaJIT. It will always end up somewhere as a complete jit'ing compiler with no external dependencies just is inherently a complex beast. What might make sense it to have a more accessible documentation on how LuaJIT works. There are blog posts, mailing list posts and source code comments that probably give an almost complete picture, but there is not central place to find it all.