TinyC/tcc [1] still is a single-pass compiler and can go all the way to ELF files (or directly running via tcc -run) in a few milliseconds - sometimes an order

TinyC/tcc [1] still is a single-pass compiler and can go all the way to ELF files (or directly running via tcc -run) in a few milliseconds - sometimes an order of magnitude faster than the minimal start-up time of an interpreter like Python. But yes, gcc will generate faster running object code..a long standing trade off (like -O0 vs -O3, etc.). [1] https://github.com/TinyCC/TinyCC https://github.com/TinyCC/TinyCC