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Why does an open source architecture have to be esoteric? It could just as easily be conventional. We don't know for sure that ARM will be as popular in the future. Presumably aim isn't to teach individual intricacies but rather the overall concepts.
Your assumptions about speed might be true for something like a Nintendo DS which doesn't have a floating point unit but a 3DS does, a vectorised one no less. Also in Javascript integers that can fit into 32 bits are actually integers nowadays.
All in all, I believe your information is outdated.
ETA: Just remembered. They open source 7 Kingdoms a few years back so you can find out what the code from a commercial RTS looks like. http://www.7kfans.com/wiki/index.php/Download
(It was a Monty Python reference.)