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That's a five times speedup. I wouldn't expect a typical 'compiled' language to run five times faster than JavaScript on the kind of code you find in a compiler.


You are excluding startup time. Loading the interpreter/runtime and initial JIT pass is slow. For many codebases, the compilation time is actually dominated by the time it takes the interpreter to get going.




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