[rbranson]

Switching to V8 seems like a red herring. Sounds like the current issues are with the architecture, not with the interpreter performance.

[nosh]

true to an extent (about performance), which is why I used the qualifier 'probably'. I should have said may instead! I think Eliot's comment sums it up pretty well: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-2407?focusedCommentId...

@rbranson - if you have thoughts on ways to improve, please do add them to http://jira.mongodb.org :)