[notsohuman]

I mean an actual compiler rather which is much more optimized than node environment rather than just making things into executables

[ComodoHacker]

V8 includes JIT compiler. Could it really be "much more" optimized?

[perbu]

If you look at Hiphop vs. HHVM there is certainly a significant performance upside in taking advantage of clangs or gccs ability to produce efficient code.

I'm not sure why Facebook decided to stop maintaining hiphop. Perhaps manageability wasn't great.

[mbel]

Perhaps. JIT compiler has to care deeply for compilation time. For AOT compiler compilation time is a little bit less pressing problem which leaves some space for optimization passes that take too long for JIT.

[notsohuman]

I agree V8 does an awesome job buts it compilation phase is not done separate before running. Lot could done to gain the speed in those areas.

[notsohuman]

there is always something more that can be done

[perbu]

This would be pretty useful. Something like hiphop which could transpile into C or C++ would mean we (IncludeOS) could build tooling to run a node application on directly in a vm without a underlying OS.

[_pmf_]

What kind of thread support does IncludeOS offer?

Edit: IncludeOS does not offer thread support, so it's unclear how the GC of the JS VM is supposed to run.