This actually gave me some new context on why Web technologies can be slow: fast as the runtime might have become, it spends useless cycles converting hex to AS

This actually gave me some new context on why Web technologies can be slow: fast as the runtime might have become, it spends useless cycles converting hex to ASCII, thrashing the stack, and so on. I wonder if it wouldn't be faster to encrypt the JavaScript code, and use something like the existing Widevine DRM to distribute the keys.