Thanks for pointing this out, I'll adjust the title to make it more accurate. I think the benchmarks show that the runtime is at least on par with existing popular runtimes.

Some other cool pitch points I've learned while chatting with Shaw:

- MiniVM supports saving and loading compressed snapshots/images, like smalltalk

- JIT is in the works (it had a JIT in the past, which was removed in a refactor)

- Zero dependencies, compiles to Wasm with cosmo libc.

- VM supports multiple languages and sharing libraries between languages

- The main language that targets MiniVM is self-hosted on MiniVM; there's a minimal os built on MiniVM.

- Fast startup times make it good for embedded scripting, like lua.

- the way the ISA itself is also really interesting, would recommend reading the C if that's your thing.