Don't know about Smalltalk but there are numerous CL compilers...

I'm pretty sure that's exactly their point. People assume that interactive means interpreted, but that doesn't need to be the case.

Ah, my bad, I didn't caught the sarcasm in that post. Yeah, it makes sense now... ^__^;

Smalltalk is compiled to bytecode.

Smalltalk is a family of dialects and implementations. Most of them are indeed compiled to bytecode which is then executed by a JIT VM. Most of them use the "image" concept where you are always in runtime like in a classic Lisp, and yes, the VM handles shape changes etc etc. But some Smalltalks actually have other characteristics, like non JIT or even compiling via C (Smalltalk/X does that I believe).

Which were originally the CPU instructions of Dorado, given its microcoded CPU.

And gave birth to all modern JITs.