[melenaboija]

> "...typically on par with (and sometimes better than) that of C/C++"

What makes it faster than C++?

I see this in the documentation but I am not sure it helps me (not an expert):

> C++? Codon often generates the same code as an equivalent C or C++ program. Codon can sometimes generate better code than C/C++ compilers for a variety of reasons, such as better container implementations, the fact that Codon does not use object files and inlines all library code, or Codon-specific compiler optimizations that are not performed with C or C++.

[__ryan__]

JIT.

[ot]

JIT can be faster than a static compiler if it takes advantage of runtime feedback, but that's not the case here:

> While Codon does offer a JIT decorator similar to Numba's, Codon is in general an ahead-of-time compiler that compiles end-to-end programs to native code.

[boomanaiden154]

It can be, but if you're using PGO, the performance gains from JIT are a lot less significant and you lose the compilation overhead at runtime that you have with JIT.