RFR: 8323170 - j2dbench is using outdated javac source/target to be able to build by itself

[Jiří Vaněk]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 02:06:35 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <serb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > Also, I'm not saying to bump source/target to something drastic like 20 or so, I originally prosed 8 - which is the oldest live openjdk anyway. However (unless something unexpected comes form https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8323169) what in next jdks - from jdk23 onwards I would suggest 11 as source target, which will again cover the period of next LTS..and so on.
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> Unfortunately, right now the most important thing to compare is the difference between JDK 7/8 and the JDK 11+, since there was a big code rework in 11 which caused a few-not-fixed regressions.

But you will still require two binaries to run it on jdk7 and on jdk21. As they can not shere the bytecode version. Or what do I miss?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17303#issuecomment-1948375926