Note that this article is four years old. I was trying to figure out why the language I look after (Dart) looked so bad, but then I realized that the benchmark

Note that this article is four years old. I was trying to figure out why the language I look after (Dart) looked so bad, but then I realized that the benchmark is using a completely obsolete (now removed) approach to FFI and running all the code in interpreted mode, rather than compiling it.