没有严格的理由说明为什么基于字节码的语言(如c#或Java)不能像c++代码一样快。然而，c++代码在很长一段时间内都要快得多，今天在许多情况下仍然如此。这主要是因为更高级的JIT优化实现起来比较复杂，而真正酷的JIT优化现在才出现。

所以在很多情况下，c++更快。但这只是答案的一部分。c++实际上更快的情况是高度优化的程序，其中专业程序员彻底优化了代码。这不仅非常耗时(因此非常昂贵)，而且由于过度优化通常会导致错误。

On the other hand, code in interpreted languages gets faster in later versions of the runtime (.NET CLR or Java VM), without you doing anything. And there are a lot of useful optimizations JIT compilers can do that are simply impossible in languages with pointers. Also, some argue that garbage collection should generally be as fast or faster as manual memory management, and in many cases it is. You can generally implement and achieve all of this in C++ or C, but it's going to be much more complicated and error prone.

As Donald Knuth said, "premature optimization is the root of all evil". If you really know for sure that your application will mostly consist of very performance critical arithmetic, and that it will be the bottleneck, and it's certainly going to be faster in C++, and you're sure that C++ won't conflict with your other requirements, go for C++. In any other case, concentrate on first implementing your application correctly in whatever language suits you best, then find performance bottlenecks if it runs too slow, and then think about how to optimize the code. In the worst case, you might need to call out to C code through a foreign function interface, so you'll still have the ability to write critical parts in lower level language.

请记住，优化一个正确的程序相对容易，但更正一个优化的程序要难得多。

给出实际的速度优势百分比是不可能的，这在很大程度上取决于你的代码。在许多情况下，编程语言实现甚至不是瓶颈。请带着极大的怀疑态度使用http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/上的基准测试，因为这些测试的主要是算术代码，很可能与您的代码完全不同。

我知道这不是你想问的，但是c#通常比c++写得更快，这在商业环境中是一个很大的好处。

根据我的经验(这两种语言我都用过很多)，与c++相比，c#的主要问题是内存消耗高，而且我还没有找到控制它的好方法。最终导致。net软件变慢的是内存消耗。

另一个因素是JIT编译器不能提供太多时间来进行高级优化，因为它在运行时运行，如果花费太多时间，最终用户会注意到它。另一方面，c++编译器有足够的时间在编译时进行优化。恕我直言，这个因素远没有内存消耗那么重要。

需要大量内存访问的应用程序。图像处理通常更适合在非托管环境(c++)而不是托管环境(c#)中编写。使用指针算法优化的内循环在c++中更容易控制。在c#中，你可能需要使用不安全的代码来获得相同的性能。

. net语言可以像c++代码一样快，甚至更快，但是c++代码将拥有更恒定的吞吐量，因为. net运行时必须暂停进行GC，即使它非常巧妙地处理了暂停。

因此，如果您有一些代码必须持续快速运行而不需要任何暂停，. net在某些时候会引入延迟，即使您非常小心地使用运行时GC。

In theory, for long running server-type application, a JIT-compiled language can become much faster than a natively compiled counterpart. Since the JIT compiled language is generally first compiled to a fairly low-level intermediate language, you can do a lot of the high-level optimizations right at compile time anyway. The big advantage comes in that the JIT can continue to recompile sections of code on the fly as it gets more and more data on how the application is being used. It can arrange the most common code-paths to allow branch prediction to succeed as often as possible. It can re-arrange separate code blocks that are often called together to keep them both in the cache. It can spend more effort optimizing inner loops.

我怀疑。net或任何jre都能做到这一点，但早在我上大学的时候就有人在研究这一点，所以认为这类东西很快就会在现实世界中找到自己的方式也不是不合理的。