> On top of it all, even V8 javascript still runs 10-20x slower than C. http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb/plb-lang.png http://attractivechaos.github.com/pl

> On top of it all, even V8 javascript still runs 10-20x slower than C. http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb/plb-lang.png http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb/plb-lang.png http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb/plb-lib.png http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb/plb-lib.png cross language comparions are bogus and their results can't be extrapolated to all apps, but these examples show that V8 is much closer to raw C perf than you might expect.