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Edoardo Luppi
03/25/2020, 5:03 PMHow does the
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Mike
03/25/2020, 7:05 PMMy understanding is it does, but currently only 7 and 8 have any real changes in them for bytecode.
11+ are there for consistency, but I don't think the compiler does anything differently for them yet.
For example, Kotlin supports default methods on interfaces. If target is 6 or 7, it has to create classes/interfaces to support that behind the scenes. For 8, it can use the JDK8 bytecode directly, as 8 added support for that.
But this specific example is more complicated than that as described here: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/java-to-kotlin-interop.html#default-methods-in-interfaces