On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 17:55 +0100, Christian Thalinger wrote: > Found here: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/1997.html > > Quote: > > Thursday, February 20, 1997 > Andreas Krall has released CACAO 0.1, a free 64 bit JIT compiler for > JAVA for Alpha systems running Linux or Digital Unix. CACAO executes > Java programs up to 25 times faster than the JDK interpreter and between > 1.5 to 2 times slower than an equivalent C program compiled with maximal > optimization. However, it can only be used with the JDK 1.0.2. CACAO > version 0.1 only supports java.lang, java.io and java.util. Class > archives in zip format are not supported. CACAO is distributed free of > charge. > > A long, long way from there to Eclipse... And a long way to becoming the second free runtime to successfully bootstrap & run OpenOffice.org! Congratulations, great work! cheers, dalibor topic
