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Nitpick: JIT optimizations are available to static compilers if you're willing to do a little work. Both GCC and MS Visual Studio support Profile Guided Optimizations which optimize using saved runtime data. It's a little misleading to suggest there are optimizations "that static compilers (...) cannot do".

Corbin March
– Corbin March

2011-01-13 16:58:01 +00:00
Commented Jan 13, 2011 at 16:58
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I don't know why this is the accepted answer, nothing in this post holds any semblance of truth. C based languages will always outperform Java, as Java is a Virtual machine hinged on another language inherently. Furthermore, anything you can achieve in Java you can achieve in C with less overhead. C based languages will never cease to be the 'performant' language.

Mike
– Mike

2014-09-25 14:29:42 +00:00
Commented Sep 25, 2014 at 14:29

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