It can, after a warm-up period and by using 10x the memory and likely non-idiomatic code. Sometimes one can live with that, sometimes not.
Re:Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18
by kaba0 on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:39PM
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Look at benchmark game’s java programs - it is very idiomatic compared to most other contenders yet it is exceedingly fast
This only affirms our point that JIT can keep up with, or beat, AOT already.