Not quite - what you said is true for a hypothetical "stage4" however there is a distinct difference between stage2 and stage3. While they are built from the sa

Not quite - what you said is true for a hypothetical "stage4" however there is a distinct difference between stage2 and stage3. While they are built from the same source code, and therefore have the same logic, they are lowered by different backends, meaning they will have potentially drastically different performance characteristics depending on the differences between the stage1 and stage2 backend, respectively. Related: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12183 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12183