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very obvious reasons it compiles to run on a VM. I'd like to see OS threads scale. The context switching would murder you pretty quick.
A compiler is a compiler. Whether it targets x86, JVM, Parrot, LLVM, Erlang's VM, blah blah blah, it's still a compiler.
Also, strictness by default >>> lazy. Reasoning about the time and space complexity of a lazy language is a bitch.