[overgard]

I'm surprised the article left out mention of PyPy, which is pretty comparable to something like V8

http://speed.pypy.org/

[fijal]

I believe the article is a more or less verbatim transcript of what happened. I wasn't there and I don't really want to speculate, but I would expect LWN to mention everything important that was mentioned and not add their own interpretation either.

[jimnotgym]

> Thomas Wouters asked if he had looked at PyPy. Shapiro said the company had, but there was only a modest bump in performance for its workload.

It was mentioned, but in a rather dismissive way