I'm not an expert on this subjectrobably the best thing the JVM has going for it is two things: many world class extremely tunable garbage collectors and acres

I'm not an expert on this subjectrobably the best thing the JVM has going for it is two things: many world class extremely tunable garbage collectors and acres of software written for it already. V8 has tons of software written for it but the focus is somewhat different (see Apache projects)