Hey, author here. That's fair, I didn't have the background. I knew interpreters would be slow, I just didn't expect it to still be ~10x after all the optimizat

Hey, author here. That's fair, I didn't have the background. I knew interpreters would be slow, I just didn't expect it to still be ~10x after all the optimizations. After reading about it more though, that does seem to be the norm