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Re:Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile ... by elcomet on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:57AM (#26778369)
Node uses a JIT compiler (V8) and is not interpreted. This is why it's so fast.

You could compare it with PyPy, a just-in-time compiler for python.

For example, on my machine, the same program runs in 2:12 min with the regular python interpreter, and in 1.57 seconds with pypy.

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