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The point is speed is a false proxy for the quality of Node.js. The results don't necessarily justify using it for everything going forward.

The point is speed is a false proxy for the quality of Node.js.

Well, no, speed is the actual measure of interest. The point is that reimplementations that change language also often change other design features, and that without knowing what else changed one cannot validate the attribution of the post-change speed improvement to Node.js.

I think we're saying the same thing :)

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