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The only reasonably mature and production worthy backend is MoarVM on 64 bit x86. (MoarVM on other hardware platforms is complete but shockingly slow.)
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In theory the JVM backend may indeed be "quite a bit faster ... for some applications". And in practice the JVM has a very sophisticated and mature JIT. So maybe you're right. What I've tried was shockingly slow. YMMV.