Reliably benchmarking optimizing VMs like Java and JavaScript is a research problem. See “Virtual machine warmup blows hot and cold”. The authors run a variet

Reliably benchmarking optimizing VMs like Java and JavaScript is a research problem. See “Virtual machine warmup blows hot and cold”. The authors run a variety of benchmarks (with a pristine methodology) and find 43% of them provide “bad inconsistent” results. Paper summary: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/07/virtual-machine-warmup-blows-hot-and-cold/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/07/virtual-machine-warmup-b... Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3133876 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3133876