You are wrong. The JVM can do runtime optimisations that you won't get from ahead of time compiled code. Trivial example: removal of runtime constants. That doe

You are wrong. The JVM can do runtime optimisations that you won't get from ahead of time compiled code. Trivial example: removal of runtime constants. That doesn't mean that code running in the JVM is always faster - most of the time it won't be. But it is possible for particular workloads to run faster than in C