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Discussion on: Javascript's Persistent Popularity: No one seems to particularly enjoy the language, but everyone is using it

 
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Gorgi Kosev

10x is the worst case - you would typically get around 2x-3x worse performance compared with most compiled languages. See for example benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u... - and thats with 4 cores vs 1 core for most of the programs. When limited to single core the difference is even smaller.