#KOTLIN KLIB CODE#

When targeting native, is code compiled directly to machine code? What steps does LLVM take it through? The JavaScript source code is, just as well, either interpreted or JIT-compiled, which depends on the JavaScript engine used to run the program. I believe the word transpile ( translate + compile) is used here to emphasize that the target format is source code rather than binary, while the compiler still performs a lot of transformations and optimizations.

You can try and build any Kotlin/JS example and examine the *.js output files containing the JS source code that the Kotlin code is translated to. The target format for Kotlin/JS is JavaScript source code. What exactly is the code compiled down to and is it interpreted or compiled further down at any step? When targeting javascript the word 'transpiles' is used. Here, the Kotlin compiler doesn't need to know how exactly the bytecode will then be used. 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. Would this be an example of JIT(Just in time) compilation?

The code is compiled/translated down to bytecode and then the JVM interprets(?) it down to machine code.

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