Counter-example: LuaJIT (http://luajit.org/luajit_performance.html http://luajit.org/luajit_performance.html), largely because the compiler / optimizer themselv

Counter-example: LuaJIT (http://luajit.org/luajit_performance.html http://luajit.org/luajit_performance.html), largely because the compiler / optimizer themselves are extraordinarily small.