I think that’s an oversimplification. By that measure any assembler would be simple, yet assembly is not simple at all. Most esoteric languages compile super fast, but are usually complicated by design.

Also, it’s not even a sound measure: There are C compilers that are extremely fast and some that are a lot slower but achieve better performance. Java compiles to byte code and performs compilation to machine code during execution. Interpreted languages sometimes only use an AST for execution and don’t compile to machine code at all.