I don't understand in what respect this should contradict my statements. I answered to the argument "Several trillion dollar companies have large teams working on JavaScript engines, usually multiple engines each. The OpenSmalltalk VM is a volunteer effort of a very small community, with the main JIT produced primarily by a single person." and demonstrated that major performance breakthroughs were realized by small teams, in case of JS as we know by Lars Bak (who also was at Longview Tech) and Kasper Lund. Of course there were other attempts to make Smalltalk faster, but I concentrated on the ones really making a difference. I think the topic has been sufficiently discussed.
Yes, it is obvious that you don’t understand. Not sure how that is possible, but here we are.
Your claim that Smalltalk is somehow more difficult to optimize than JS or Self is patently false.
The fact that you get different results from large teams of super smart people with virtually unlimited resources than from small bands of volunteers is in no way contradicted by individuals making breakthroughs. Those individuals often work at those multi-trillion companies.
Using either SOM or Squeak/Pharo as comparisons for VM performance is ridiculous.
