It is normal for a VM with JIT to run some applications faster than than a compiled application. That’s because a VM with JIT is like a simulator that simulates a virtual computer, and also runs a compiler in realtime. Because both tasks are built into the VM with JIT, the machine simulator can feed information to the compiler so that the code can be recompiled to run more efficiently. The information that it provides is not available to statically compiled code.
This effect has also been noted with Java VMs and with Python’s PyPy VM, among others.