On 22/10/2021 12:37 am, kekronbekron wrote:
Your customers with newer software don't need to be 'punished with' binaries made for/from older Java, when newer Java versions might offer some sort of instruction-level enhancements.
It's really the other way round... compiled languages like C++ and COBOL have to be compiled to support the lowest instruction set. Java can JIT compile at runtime for the hardware it is running on.
I think the enhancements in later versions of Java are more to make things easier for the programmer than to produce more efficient byte code.
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