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by th_yc 5366 days ago
Exactly -- for a fair comparision, V8 (which has a JIT) should be compared against Rubinius (for Ruby) and PyPy (for Python), which will both be nearly as fast as V8.

Of course, it is true that V8 is ubiquitous, whereas Rubinius and PyPy are not -- that is the one majore advantage of javascript.