Thanks for mentioning my project! I am still working on the design of Smalltalk hardware, but this year I have expanded that a bit to include efficient emulatio

Thanks for mentioning my project! I am still working on the design of Smalltalk hardware, but this year I have expanded that a bit to include efficient emulation of other machines (such as x86 or ARM) and not just the Smalltalk VM. Note that in Self many of the implementation tricks needed to make Smalltalk run fast were eliminated. And I see no reason why the number of primitives can't be as few as 12 or so. The rest are needed either for speed (but a good compiler can let normal Smalltalk code do the same job) or to talk to the operating system (but a Smalltalk on "bare metal" doesn't need that).