> Despite many years of effort and research, and much investment, we've yet to see Just-in-Time compilation rival Ahead-of-Time compilation in terms of the perf

> Despite many years of effort and research, and much investment, we've yet to see Just-in-Time compilation rival Ahead-of-Time compilation in terms of the performance. I see this repeated ad nauseam, but it's false. Other platforms are not rivaling C/C++ in terms of performance and not AOT compilation. But the reason for why C/C++ is still winning in terms of performance has little to do with it being compiled ahead of time and more to do with manual memory management and not using a garbage collector. C++ compilers are also very mature, being themselves the subject of research. But compare Java's performance to Go, or to Objective-C for that matter and the situation changes completely.