Comment by zokier

So Elsas own comparison[1] says that the binary size difference is 20MB Elsa (QJS) vs 44MB Deno (V8). Looking at QuickJS benchmark[2] V8 is 28M vs 1M QJS, so Elsa adds 19M on top of the engine vs 16M for Deno. Doesn't feel that lightweight anymore

[1] https://github.com/elsaland/elsa/blob/master/COMPARISON.md

[2] https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html