"Discrete simulations" are things like turn-based strategy games, roguelikes, and so on. You can think of it as "automated board games" in a lot of ways. https

"Discrete simulations" are things like turn-based strategy games, roguelikes, and so on. You can think of it as "automated board games" in a lot of ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-event_simulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-event_simulation In truth, I think V8 is almost certainly more than fast enough for real-time games (real-time in the gaming sense, not in the OS sense); Mono is fast enough for Unity, even, and Mono is creaky and slow, with a really poor garbage collector, on its best day. But for the stuff I'm interested in, I just don't care at all.