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An even better question is "faster by what metric?". Once it has been running for a while and the JIT has done its work, it can definitely happen that a Java program will outperform an equivalent C++ program because of the JIT's improved knowledge of the whole program and the dynamic execution environment. C++ can gain much of the same benefit with LTO and PGO, but it's definitely not trivial (particularly PGO) and there's not really a slam dunk win for C++.

Now if the metric is startup time, that's a different story. (Though I believe there's been a lot of work on hybrid AOT/JIT since I left the world of managed languages, so maybe things are better now.)