Comment by p0w3n3d

Ends up is the keyword here. Virtual machine takes time to start and warm up. There is an indirection layer between CPU commands and c# bytecode. Of course programmers stronger than me and you (maybe not you? But me for sure) are working constantly on how to improve this, how to make just in time translations etc. But These things take time. Native is faster on startup. Later java/c# wins unless the native code is done by a very skillful programmer. we're speaking on app startup time, right?