With ngen and mono-aot it can be compiled to native code directly.
> JVM-based languages would not fare any better.
It is all a matter of which JVM is used. Some of them offer AOT compilation and on disk cache of JITted code from previous runs, thus matching the startup time of native binaries.
This is only the case if the code is JITed.
With ngen and mono-aot it can be compiled to native code directly.
> JVM-based languages would not fare any better.
It is all a matter of which JVM is used. Some of them offer AOT compilation and on disk cache of JITted code from previous runs, thus matching the startup time of native binaries.