From what I know about it (and I could be wrong, so someone else who knows more about this back me up if I'm right), the RAF was really wary of using the Meteor over the front.
They weren't concerned about attrition, but they didn't want the Germans getting their hands on the engine. This kept the Meteor back doing intercept duties and things like that in France and Britain, since it could outrun the V1s and V2s.
So I don't know if was necessarily production you're thinking about, but more a change in how the RAF felt it needed the Meteor to be used.
But as far as how it handled compared to the Spitfire, since it flew faster, it obviously had a longer turning radius. In my opinion, they would probably want to use it as an interceptor as opposed to a fighter, unless they decided that the threat from the Me262 was great enough that it required them posting the Meteors around the known airfields where the German jets were based.
The Americans had already come up with a pretty good jet-killer in the form of a pimped-out P-51 Mustang with NAS (actually, that's where they got the idea. Someone brought it home and put it on their car.).
Then they just hit the jets while they were taking off or landing, which put them in their speed range.
So if you had, say, so hawkish Air Marshal who REALLY wanted to know how this thing worked, then maybe some Meteors could be moved forward to the front to cover Montgomery's push.
It's not something that would be needed, since the Allies had already developed doctrine to deal with the jets, but if you put a Meteor over, say Laage, then I'm sure one of the Messerschmidts would've come up to play.