It totally could, the JVM is really fast. JS interpreters are fast too these days. So I don't expect much difference between the two. One department where the

It totally could, the JVM is really fast. JS interpreters are fast too these days. So I don't expect much difference between the two. One department where the JVM may win is latency (the new GCs are incredibly fast so no impact there) for typing to display. Other than that I don't expect much difference.