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Originally Posted by eschwartz
The Kindle can compile anything which can be compiled in 256 MB of RAM + your use of swap space. Which is a fair bit. We're not exactly planning to compile Firefox here...
Obviously, given the processor in question, it will take a while (~days potentially). But I have it on good authority it is a good way to avoid cross-compilation issues.  |
It took me about 12 hours to compile X11 on my K3, back in the day.
And it kinda sorta actually almost worked too.
Now with a whole 38MB, imagine porting something like this to a kindle with sound (using gmplay video code as a base):
Now if you tell me a kindle does not have enough RAM for "real programs", you have barely begun to learn the craft the way the masters did it in the olden days when RAM was precious and scarce (and still is in some embedded devices).
EDIT: Just for a size reference, Apple-2 diskettes were typically bootable and contained an entire application, from things like accounting and bookkeeping, payroll and taxes, development toolchains, and of course games. My Corvus hard drive held FIFTY Apple-2 diskette images, and it was a whopping FIVE MEGABYTES. I still have a couple of those ginormous 5MB hard drives around here. And it was very unusual to see an Apple-2 with more than 16KB installed. Kids these days don't know just how good they have it compared to the "good old days"...