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The subject does sometimes come up in my casual conversations, since Robin Milner was my first CS lecturer.
He never actually spoke about type inference in my presence. He did teach me CCS (pi-calculus predecessor) a couple of years later, by which time I could appreciate him.
I did some work for Apricot at their Glenrothes factory around 1985-87.
In my memory they went heavier on GEM than Windows. I never saw an Apricot running Windows prior to the PC-compatible models.
Matt Godbolt was saying recently that using tail-calls for an interpreter suits the branch predictor inside the cpu. Compared to a single big switch / computed jump.
Whilst you’re right in broad strokes, I would observe that “the garbage-collector” is one of those tight loops.
Single-threaded JavaScript is perhaps one of the best defences against NUMA, but anyone running a process on multiple cores and multiple gigabytes should at least know about the problem.
Some things to search for:
JP Morgan Athena BofA Quartz Kirat Singh Mark Higgins