30 Oct
2005
30 Oct
'05
10:04 p.m.
On Sunday 30 October 2005 02:28 pm, Leo Mauler wrote:
I find it somewhat reprehensible that the Accessibility tools require Java, as if it wasn't already going to be processor and memory intensive to allow people with disabilities to use the office suite.
I find Java as reprehensible as the next guy but there is hope. There is now a fairly complete Java front-end to GCC which compiles Java to native code called GCJ. It requires a support library called libgcj and it isn't very optimized yet but it requires a _LOT_ less space than the JRE's distributed by Sun and IBM. Also check out the Classpath project which is working on implementing the Java standard library.
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