Quote Originally Posted by Dan View Post
it will never be as fast as the native compiled executables though.
It depends on the problem and what is used to compile the native executables, f.i. on pure maths like the Mandelbrot set, FireFox and especially Chrome were giving Delphi XE2 a good sweating a few months ago:
http://delphitools.info/2011/09/02/f...t-performance/

FreePascal was in the same ballpark as Delphi, but I haven't tried since, it would be interesting to see if it has since caught up with the JS engines.