That's true, but as both get faster the difference between them becomes less and less significant. The layers between non-native and native impose a relatively

That's true, but as both get faster the difference between them becomes less and less significant. The layers between non-native and native impose a relatively fixed amount of overhead, which uses a smaller and smaller percentage of overall performance as devices get faster. that's why virtual machines, for both full environments and for the runtime layer of high level languages, are so commonplace now while a decade ago they were a serious disadvantage compared to non-vm approaches.