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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