I read on the wikipedia article for Common Language Runtime that one of the benefits that the runtime provides is Performance improvements.Executing managed code (Or bytecode) must surely always be slower due to additional overhead for JIT compilation than executing native code. How then is it possible that the CLR causes Performance improvements?Update:I have looked at the question and answers to What backs up the claim that C++ can be faster than a JVM or CLR with JIT?, but it has not been helful as that question is actually asking why C++ would be faster rather than slower. What I am interested in is how it is possible, from an architectural point of view, that managed code could lead to performance improvements
How does the Common Language Runtime improve performance?
performance;clr;jit;managed code