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> Will performance improve across the board

Speaking very generally, I've never seen a major architecture change that led to a performance improvement across the board. In particular in JS which has so many corners. There are always going to be some things that improve, some that regress, and some that stay the same. You can see examples of all three here (compare lines with TurboFan+Ignition vs v8):

http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=29&view=breakdown&suite=oct...



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