I'm pretty sure the compilation time is less to do with the "level" that it operates. From presentations on the topic, most of the time savings were by making t

I'm pretty sure the compilation time is less to do with the "level" that it operates. From presentations on the topic, most of the time savings were by making the syntax completely unambiguous. Apparently, in C/C++ and similar, some of the longest parts of the compilation process are lexing/parsing/AST-building, etc (citations needed)