LuaJIT is the same, as is V8 (at least with Ignition & TurboFan). The article's assumption that fewer instructions = faster does not necessarily apply to these

LuaJIT is the same, as is V8 (at least with Ignition & TurboFan). The article's assumption that fewer instructions = faster does not necessarily apply to these implementations, but is approximately correct for CPython (because it's a simple bytecode interpreter).