[jsnnsjxj]

I do not agree in the general case. There are very useful DSL compilers which do not consider performance at all, but just compile to a target which does the optimization for them (JVM, LLVM IR or even just C)

[auselen]

Yes but those are called transpilers, right?

[odjdnejej]

There is no fundamental difference between a compiler, transpiler and interpreter.

The techniques employed are very similar