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But doesn't that mean the article's point is kind of moot? That when people blame slow languages / VMs, they actually are slow and it has nothing to do with war

by Boxxed 8y ago

But doesn't that mean the article's point is kind of moot? That when people blame slow languages / VMs, they actually are slow and it has nothing to do with warm-up time?

codeflo 8y ago
Both can be true, benchmarking JITs is really hard, but even so, (despite decades of claims to the contrary), managed VMs actually are a bit slower than unsafe native code.
- wbl 8y ago
  Nothing prevents native code from being safe