Is there any language that native-compiles faster than D?

[Stefan Koch]

On Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 09:19:47 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 23:16:40 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 22:20:19 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 8/20/20 4:50 PM, Per Nordlöw wrote:
>>>> After having evaluated the compilation speed of D compared 
>>>> to other languages at
>>>> 
>>>>      https://github.com/nordlow/compiler-benchmark
>>>> 
>>>> I wonder; is there any language that compiles to native code 
>>>> anywhere nearly as fast or faster than D, except C?
>>>> 
>>>> If so it most likely needs to use a backend other than LLVM.
>>>> 
>>>> I believe Jai is supposed to do that but it hasn't been 
>>>> released yet.
>>>
>>> I tried Python a while ago, the build-run cycle for a simple 
>>> program was about the same. For Perl it was faster.
>>
>> Neither perl nor python compile their code by default.
>
> Yes, they do. Just not to x86.

If they compile to bytecode that's still not native code.
Which is what was asked if I understood the question correctly.