You can see the beginnings of Avi's work on MagLev with this post. This sticks out in particular: "... clearly you could implement the Ruby language with a Sma

You can see the beginnings of Avi's work on MagLev with this post. This sticks out in particular: "... clearly you could implement the Ruby language with a Smalltalk-style VM (hopefully one with a Smalltalk-style JIT as well, which would bring a 20x or so speed increase to the current Ruby interpreter)."