What is LLVM in Kotlin?

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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Can Kotlin be compiled?

Yes, when targeting the JVM, Kotlin is compiled to JVM *. class files , which is a bytecode format that can later be either interpreted by a JVM, or compiled to the machine code by the JVM during the program run (JIT), or even compiled ahead-of-time (AOT) down to the machine code.

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