I would look at both, Perl on SL4A (which is mostly dead, I think) and Jess Robinsons efforts of cross-compiling Perl so it runs on Android.

Your hope of compiling on the tablet will likely not hold true, as ARM machines are somewhat slow, at least when running CPU-intensive tasks. Maybe that is different for the top-end ARM CPUs that are used on tablets though.

Personally, I hope that there will be a tablet with good enough Android support (enough RAM, enough access) and a port of Perl to Android (that is, native toolchan and modules to access the OS features). I think in the near future, the low-priced tablets like the Google Nexus 7 will enable more hacking in that direction. If you don't need access to the OS features, you can already run Ubuntu or Debian binaries on the Android kernel (I think), which should enable you to run a recent Perl and some recent toolchain on your tablet.

In reply to Re: Perl on Android by Corion
in thread Perl on Android by CountZero

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