Re: Gigabyte-class SD [or MMC or MMCplus] cards

According to Klaus Weidner,
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:57:50PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> > Maybe I'll invest some time porting the apps I like to the
> > small screen.  I don't really need that many real pda apps,
> > and the apps I used to really want don't seem to exist yet
> > (a plaintext quick-search index card thing like InfoSelect 
> > was before it became a tree-structured database monster back
> > when I used to run it on my on-in-two-seconds Windows-3.1+
> > -in-ROM HP Omnibook-300 back in the day.
> > 
> > What do you recommend for something like that?  Mono/dot-GNU?
> > (snicker.  snicker?  hmmm.  They want me to learn C# for work...)
> 
> How about running the Windows 3.1 InfoSelect inside Bochs ;-)
> 
> On a more serious note, I've experimented with the Perl GTK bindings (see
> attachment) which is okay, the startup time isn't great though since it
> recompiles the large included files each time. Maybe something
> persistently compiled would work out better, I've experimented with clisp
> and gtk-server but haven't spent much time on it.
> 
> -Klaus
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
> 
> use Gtk;
> 
> use strict;
> $^W=1; # use warnings;

Looks interesting.

Does it perform OK once it has started?  If so, I'll look
into it.  I saw that perl had a flag for persistently
caching its compiled binaries someplace... I'll have to
track it down...