LISP bytecode

No? OK, let me rephrase the question. Does anyone know of a good resource or tutorial for making any sort of virtual machine running bytecode, at all? If not I'll have to figure it out myself, and the result will be a slow, hacked-up mess. You don't want to unleash that on the world, do you? Don't come and say I didn't warn you!

Look up a book called "Lisp In Small Pieces" by Christian Queinnec; I've found that it's one of the best guides there is to actually understanding how Lisps work under the hood. I believe it goes over various features such as interpretation, compiling to bytecode, basic optimization, and adding more advanced features like continuations (it's been a while though, so I may be wrong).

You might also want to look at the Scheme48 source; I've heard it's designed to be used for learning and experimenting with, so. Apart from that... google around, ask on the comp.lang.lisp newsgroup, stuff like that.

On the subject of "any", Implementing a scripting engine might help.

Thank you, gentlemen, I shall look into both suggestions. :)