Comment by pron
The only "abstraction penalty" of "running on a VM" (by which I think you mean using a JIT compiler), is the warmup time of waiting for the JIT.
The only "abstraction penalty" of "running on a VM" (by which I think you mean using a JIT compiler), is the warmup time of waiting for the JIT.
Its a statement of our times that this is getting down voted. JIT is so underrated.