Investigate benchmarks from "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game"

[mkustermann]

We should investigate the benchmarks with big JIT vs AOT differences from benchmarksgame as well as those benchmarks where Dart is slower than JavaScript/Java.

Tentatively assigning to @sstrickl for now.

[lewisthoma5]

If you look at the implementation for dart vs js in the benchmarks game they are different algos most of the time , Im sure if you copy the node version dart should go toe to toe. Examples

Dart

Js

[sjindel-google]

Discussed offline with @sstrickl : Teagan has not started to investigate this, so I'll take a look.

[mraleph]

I have looked at the reverse complement and have written some new versions. With FFI we can get within 20% of C version (internal write up at go/dart-shootout-revcomp), though it requires some fixes in the compilation pipeline.