The post discusses the ongoing competition between Just-In-Time (JIT) compilers and Ahead-Of-Time (AoT) compilation strategies, highlighting that despite decades of development, the benefits of JIT compilers have yet to manifest fully in practical applications. The comments suggest skepticism about the effectiveness of JIT compilers, with a preference for hand-optimized AoT builds as the benchmarks for peak performance. There is a consensus that Google's V8 engine is one of the most successful implementations of JIT compilation, but still, it has not surpassed the efficiency of traditional AoT techniques.