[tom_mellior]

> I think we all have realized over the last 2 decades that though JIT compilers (like the JVM) should be theoretically faster than a traditional native code compiler, this is rarely (if ever) the case.

This is a very broad claim. Do you have data to support it? It would mean comparing production-quality JIT and AOT compilers for the same language, which are hard to find.

I'm vaguely aware that LLVM's JIT ambitions never worked out because compile times were too slow, which (IIRC) they tried to mitigate by running fewer optimizations in JIT mode, which meant the quality of the generated code wasn't as good as AOT. I wouldn't call this production quality though, and even so it wouldn't allow you to make your claim as broadly as you are.