Following up on this, this paper was recently posted to HN: https://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla23-larose-et-al-ast-vs-bytecode-interpreters-in-the-age-of-me

Following up on this, this paper was recently posted to HN: https://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla23-larose-et-al-ast-vs-bytecode-interpreters-in-the-age-of-meta-compilation.pdf https://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla23-larose-et-al-ast-v... It shows performance approximately equal to V8 if you write an interpreter + a few optimizations and feed it to Graal.