The name LLVM was originally an initialism for Low Level Virtual Machine . This initialism has officially been removed to avoid confusion, as the LLVM has evolved into an umbrella project that has little relationship to what most current developers think of as virtual machines.
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Kotlin/Native includes an LLVM-based backend for the Kotlin compiler and a native implementation of the Kotlin standard library.
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The Kotlin compiler supports the JVM 9, 10, 11, and 12 bytecode versions as target since Kotlin 1.3. 30 (changelog). Prior to 1.3. 30, only JVM 1.6 and 1.8 bytecode versions were supported as targets.
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