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akkad33today at 9:08 AM1 replyview on HN

Actually JITs can be faster than AOT compilation because they can be optimized for the current architecture they are running in. There were claims Julia, a JIT language can beat C in some benchmarks


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ameliustoday at 9:45 AM

In fact, JITs can be faster because they can specialize code, i.e. make optimizations based on live data.