> I'd hesitate to call C# a compiled language. It's more like a bytecode interpreted language with optional just-in-time compilation

Agreed. And Just-in-time compilation and Adaptive optimization further muddy the performance waters. I'd call C# a statically-typed language, while Perl is dynamically-typed. Note BTW that (statically-typed) C/C++ can also do JIT/Adaptive optimization nowadays via LLVM and Clang.

As discussed in more detail here, static typing usually results in compiled code that executes faster.

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