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If I understand this correctly, it takes Python code and makes it as fast as C by compiling Python code into binary like compiling C to binary.

I want something like this for JavaScript. Given how much stuff is written in JavaScript now, that would have a huge impact on the performance of so many apps.

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For Javascript, what about that method would make it more performant than Javascript's JITs?

As I understand it, JavaScript's JIT isn't quite as performant as binary compiled from a low level language like C. I'm presuming that Codon's performance is closer to that than the performance of JavaScript's JIT, but maybe that isn't correct?

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