My advice would be to read Piumarta's "Optimizing direct threaded code by selective inlining" paper [1] first, and then read the references from the wikipedia a

My advice would be to read Piumarta's "Optimizing direct threaded code by selective inlining" paper [1] first, and then read the references from the wikipedia article [2]. If the piumarta paper is still over your head, take a look at its references, but they will refer to Java, SmallTalk and Forth which might be a distraction. [1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/pag/OLD/parg/piumarta98optimizing.pdf https://groups.csail.mit.edu/pag/OLD/parg/piumarta98optimizi... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-and-patch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-and-patch