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Comment by akkad33

16 hours ago

Actually JITs can be faster than AOT compilation because they can be optimized for the current architecture they are running in. There were claims Julia, a JIT language can beat C in some benchmarks

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amelius  15 hours ago

In fact, JITs can be faster because they can specialize code, i.e. make optimizations based on live data.

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