For the same source and libraries, whatever time spent compiling ahead of time will need to be spent JITting. C can static compile pretty fast, unless you have

For the same source and libraries, whatever time spent compiling ahead of time will need to be spent JITting. C can static compile pretty fast, unless you have everything spread out over a million files and a bunch of libraries you're not really using. If the latter is the case, it'll run slow with a JIT compiler, too.