While that's certainly true, this is also to the credit of Lars Bak, the lead pr...

While that's certainly true, this is also to the credit of Lars Bak, the lead programmer on V8. There just aren't many people on earth who have his experience building VM's [1].

Disclosure: Googler, huge Apple fanboy.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)