It is fast for what it is. But it is about 50% the speed of JITless v8. What is impressive is that it is about 1/40th the size.

> Yeah we had that discussion few days ago here on HN

Mind providing the link? I'd really love to follow that discussion to gain a little more context for this discussion.

Edit: is this the link? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411154

E2: Nm, that link is old (2019), but still a very interesting read.

> Yeah we had that discussion few days ago here on HN

It's kind of inevitable that this happens every once in a while, really.