There's an interesting paper about a similar project that was done using Self [1]. "Design and Implementation of Pep, a Java Just-In-Time Translator written in

There's an interesting paper about a similar project that was done using Self [1]. "Design and Implementation of Pep, a Java Just-In-Time Translator written in Self" It goes through details with benchmarks. The PEP code is available with the Self distribution. They were able to get faster than the Java implementation at the time. Back then Java was interpreted though. [1] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/self/97-pep.pdf http://bluishcoder.co.nz/self/97-pep.pdf