Client apps are most of the time not long running processes where JIT could reach steady state performance and startup time is important. So in practical terms, AOT is faster than JIT majority of time in this use case.

Also, look at this benchmark where native image PGO is now outperforming JIT in peak throughput: https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-for-jdk-21-is-here-ee0117...

That is true, I (and the parent) should not have made claims either way about their respective speeds without thorough benchmarks.