I agree. On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't care for 1.6 compatibility.
Personally I'd like to see the compiler generate more modern bytecode (which is loaded more quickly btw because the verification phase is lighter) and I wouldn't mind if it used ASM or other established bytecode generation libraries rather than mucking with bytes by itself.
On 20 November 2016 at 10:28, Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> wrote:
On 2016/11/19 12:50, Douglas Miles wrote:
A quick note I have some projects in which I use ABCL on that still need java1.6 I was unable
to use the new code as well
A [provisional patch][1] that restores compilation in JDK6 is now available.
[1]: http://abcl.org/trac/attachment/ticket/422/run-program- 20161120a.diff
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