From: lefevrol@yahoo.com   
      
   You may be comparing apples to oranges. Managed languages like C# and   
   Java running on a VM offer two kinds of compilers: a   
   source-to-bytecode compiler that is called by the user and one or more   
   bytecode-to-native code compilers (often called JIT compilers) that   
   are under the control of the VM. The former (by design) perform next   
   to no optimizations while the latter may do so. The C++ compiler is   
   more akin to an optimizing JIT compiler than it is to the bytecode   
   compiler.   
      
   -- O.L.   
      
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