<s>
Kakadu	B-Language
is	O
a	O
closed-source	B-Application
library	B-Library
to	O
encode	B-General_Concept
and	O
decode	O
JPEG	O
2000	O
images	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kakadu	B-Language
is	O
a	O
trademark	O
of	O
NewSouth	O
Innovations	O
Ltd	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kakadu	B-Language
was	O
developed	O
by	O
and	O
continues	O
to	O
be	O
maintained	O
by	O
David	O
Taubman	O
from	O
University	O
of	O
New	O
South	O
Wales	O
(	O
UNSW	O
)	O
,	O
Australia	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	B-Library
library	I-Library
is	O
named	O
after	O
Kakadu	B-Language
National	O
Park	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
used	O
by	O
several	O
applications	B-Application
,	O
such	O
as	O
for	O
example	O
Apple	O
Inc	O
.	O
QuickTime	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
also	O
used	O
in	O
Google	B-Application
Earth	I-Application
and	O
the	O
online	O
implementation	O
thereof	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
Internet	O
Archive	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kakadu	B-Language
library	B-Library
is	O
heavy	O
optimized	O
and	O
is	O
a	O
fully	O
compliant	O
implementation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
,	O
it	O
has	O
built-in	O
multi-threading	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
a	O
2007	O
study	O
Kakadu	B-Language
outperformed	O
the	O
JasPer	B-Language
library	B-Library
in	O
terms	O
of	O
speed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
more	O
thorough	O
comparison	O
done	O
in	O
2005	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
has	O
shown	O
that	O
Kakadu	B-Language
does	O
not	O
achieve	O
the	O
best	O
performance	O
,	O
in	O
terms	O
of	O
compression	B-General_Concept
quality	O
.	O
</s>
