Nothing to see here. Author uses Octane benchmark where bigger is better, so v8 ~26 beats the "experimental engine".<p><i>Q: What do the scores mean?</i><p><i>A: In a nutshell: bigger is better. Octane measures the time a test takes to complete and then assigns a score that is inversely proportional to the run time (historically, Firefox 2 produced a score of 100 on an old benchmark rig the V8 team used).</i><p><a href="https://developers.google.com/octane/faq" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/octane/faq</a>