> If you look purely at the VM and things necessary to compile bytecode (AST, Compiler and VM) then the difference in code size isn't as stark. I suspected as

> If you look purely at the VM and things necessary to compile bytecode (AST, Compiler and VM) then the difference in code size isn't as stark. I suspected as much, but I didn't want to guess since I'm not familiar with either codebase. Thanks for the info!