There's no need to even contextualize your argument, it is the reality. The whole point of spending such heroic efforts on a fast VM implementation is so that even faster peformance becomes a niche use cases.

But alas, many unskilled programmers use Javascript to make useful things - sometimes beyond their ability. Even a state-of-the-art virtual machine like V8 cannot hope to fix that class of peformance problems.

I will withhold my opinion on the "faster than compiled languages" part though. ;)