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

[Stefan Koch]

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.