It shows that it's /competitive/ despite having just written an interpreter (which is seriously impressive). Further optimizations are possible, as evidenced by newer benchmarks and further improvements to Chrome. But that required a lot more time and effort and funding by Google.
Oracle's profit motive is (AFAIK) enabling polyglot scripting inside their database. But Google has a profit motive of not having to pay Firefox or Safari a bigger chunk of the search engine ad profits.
So yes, I agree that the outdated benchmarks are a bit fishy. But if there was enough of a market I have no doubt that the Truffle/Graal devs would know how to put more funding to good use. There are alternative JVM runtimes that optimize for latency or start-up times. The Oracle JVM is optimized for their core market (long running server processes).
Oracle's profit motive is (AFAIK) enabling polyglot scripting inside their database. But Google has a profit motive of not having to pay Firefox or Safari a bigger chunk of the search engine ad profits.
So yes, I agree that the outdated benchmarks are a bit fishy. But if there was enough of a market I have no doubt that the Truffle/Graal devs would know how to put more funding to good use. There are alternative JVM runtimes that optimize for latency or start-up times. The Oracle JVM is optimized for their core market (long running server processes).