Surprises in GopherJS Performance
These micro programs are very easy to JIT, so nearly identical performance is to be expected. It's when you get larger programs that C compilers with function inlining and better cache locality and whole program optimization leave JIT compiled languages in the dust.<p>When you have a loop of a billion iterations the JIT compiler can instantly tell that it's worth optimizing whatever is in the loop body. When you have a more complex program the JIT does not know which parts to optimize. Any time spent on this kind of "what should I optimize" meta-analysis has to be earned back by making future code run faster, so you run into diminishing returns pretty quickly.