I have no idea about the details of their test cases. If they had used an even faster language like Cobol or Fortran maybe they could have gotten it 1,000,000x

I have no idea about the details of their test cases. If they had used an even faster language like Cobol or Fortran maybe they could have gotten it 1,000,000x faster. What I do know is that some people complain about long compile times in their code that can last up to 10 minutes. I had a personal application that was greater than 60k lines of code and the tsc compiler would compile it in about 13 seconds on my super old computer. SWC would compile it in about 2.5 seconds. This tells me the far greater opportunity for performance improvement is not in modifying the compiler but in modifying the application instance.