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by silentbicycle 5692 days ago
And yet, for all the resources being thrown at improving Javascript, LuaJIT is still significantly faster. Oh, and it was written by one person.

The design of Javascript itself limits performance in various ways, unfortunately. See this discussion between Mike Pall (of LuaJIT) and Brendan Eich: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57671.