[java-dev] java version question

On Jan 8, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Nick Rothwell wrote:

> As Emmanuel says, the JVM is backwards compatible regarding  
> bytecode format, so 1.4 code will run on a 1.5 JVM, and if you're  
> happy sticking with 1.4 there shouldn't be any problems. (If you  
> decide to generate 1.4 code with a 1.5 JDK to target 1.4 systems,  
> you might want to make sure you aren't relying on 1.5-specific bits  
> of the API.)

So there's no performance hit or anything?  I figured it was probably  
fine (and I probably will go with 1.4 for now), but wanted to see if  
there were any reasons not to do it.

thanks!

brad
http://music.columbia.edu/~brad

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