On 03.09.2018 14:33, Keegan Witt wrote:
I'm working on adding Java 9, 10, and 11 bytecodes to the 2.5 branch,
and 9, 10, and 11 bytecodes when using invokedynamic to master, when I
noticed we allow the targets to go back quite a ways.
Should we continue to let the Groovy compiler target Java 4, 5, 6, and 7
in master, given that master requires Java 8+? I can't think of a valid
use case where this would be useful. What do you think of removing them?
nobody needs to target 4 or 5 really any more I think. 6 has the nice
advantage of not requiring the stack map frames. The stackmap frame
calculation support in asm is a bit.. lets say, it comes not for free.
So otherwise I see no problem in targeting Java8
bye Jochen
