API Calls & Framework... IDK

Inexperienced programmer (just started a week ago, no shit I'm just now understanding why classes rock so hard.). If making API calls to linked libraries in statically compiled binaries is faster than using a framework that uses JiT compilation... why do so many people push for the framework and JiT compilation?

I'm not trying to start anything, but I'm seriously curious as to why the later is the preferred choice.

>>8
If it ain't Lisp, it's shit!
Stop being a cretin, ``please''.

>>7,10
Learn the godly trio: Lisp (Scheme), C and assembly. You may also take a look into Smalltalk and Haskell to see some different approaches to things.

For going through SICP, I'd say use the compiled binary from http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/