The hostile corpus goes under parity

The 17-row hostile suite, built to make JavaScript stop looking like an ideal reducer, records a geomean of 0.961× Node for the first time.

The hostile corpus pairs six baselines with six stressors (closures, megamorphic shapes, type churn, throw-catch, surviving allocation, long-lived async) and adds five applications including a React-style reconciler, a warm router, a bytecode VM, a hot module graph and the unmodified nanoid package. Its first captures on 26 August were 1.111× and 1.029×; af7289f1 records 0.961×, "UNDER PARITY (first in series)", and the next two days reach 0.937× and 0.920×.