From my recollection (interviewed OTP team on this stuff once) they don't really intend to go there either. They are a very small team comparatively and maintai

From my recollection (interviewed OTP team on this stuff once) they don't really intend to go there either. They are a very small team comparatively and maintaining that kind of runtime optimization would likely be unwieldy. (https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/emx-114-just-in-time-for-otp-24-with-lukas-larsson-and-john-hogberg/ https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/emx-114-just-in-time-for-otp-2...) It won't be anything like V8, entirely correct, but it brings some VM code to native performance, beating NIFs in some cases. I think some RabbitMQ tests reported 30% increase in throughput which is pretty wild.