It was my understanding that it was hard to compare the JVM and the CLR in terms of performance. But I'd always heard that the CLR was faster because of suppor

It was my understanding that it was hard to compare the JVM and the CLR in terms of performance. But I'd always heard that the CLR was faster because of support for true generics, unsafe code, and value types. I'm really interested in this, mind going into a bit more details?