> I call BS. v8 is one of the fastest dynamic runtimes, at 2x of C or so for lots of tasks, and it totally obliterates Python, PHP, Ruby, and co in speed. Any

> I call BS. v8 is one of the fastest dynamic runtimes, at 2x of C or so for lots of tasks, and it totally obliterates Python, PHP, Ruby, and co in speed. Any proof for this? EDIT: According to "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game" JavaScript fares pretty well against Python [1] or Ruby [2] but not really that great against C [3] or Java [4] in the CPU intensive benchmarks. 1 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=node&lang2=python3 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... 2 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=node&lang2=yarv http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... 3 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=node&lang2=gcc http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... 4 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=node&lang2=java http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...