Being within the same order of magnitude is pretty impressive IMO, especially before 6 years' worth of performance improvements.

(2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09056

2022, two comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33054931

2019, 172 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023413

Given that this paper is from so long ago, running new benchmarks on existing runtimes would be productive.

https://mastodon.world/@cfallin/109833747279454645 mentions https://github.com/bytecodealliance/sightglass

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/jangda

https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...

A lot has changed since this was published, you can’t trust these numbers at all.