[blago]

Disappointingly trivial post:

1) I don't know a single person that would seriously argue that dynamically typed languages can perform better than their statically typed cousins.

2) As we all know, programming is the art of making tradeoff. One common pair is ease of writing vs. performance...

3) I think Adobe should be more worried about making a flash player/plugin I can't use to warm my hands by playing video after I come back from lunch.

[regularfry]

I wouldn't be so sure about 1). JIT compilers can in principle beat AOT by taking account of runtime profiling which AOT compilers have to make guesses at. I don't know how much (if any) of this V8 does, but it's a hell of a leap to go from "static system 'a' beats dynamic system 'b'" to "all static systems of type 'A' will inevitably beat dynamic systems of type 'B'".