Given that R folks are porting it to the JVM, I guess performance on the R side will improve thanks to Hotspot and Graal&#x2F;Truffle.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.renjin.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.renjin.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;technetwork&#x2F;java&#x2F;jvmls2013vitek-2013524.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oracle.com&#x2F;technetwork&#x2F;java&#x2F;jvmls2013vitek-201352...</a><p>Then there is PyPy as well.<p>I also think they should probably add Julia and Wolfram&#x2F;Mathematica to these comparisons.