I pretty much have to launch my Palm apps from shortcuts because I am currently using three separate GVM stores (we had traded notes about this some months back). Still, a nearly fully loaded store takes 60-90 seconds to launch or shut down.

I should have mentioned that shutdown times are just as slow. This is what made me think that the GVM is writing to a cache and then writing back on exit. It would also seem to explain why on many occasions I have lost all the apps/data on a store when my N810 has crashed while the GVM was shutting down.

Here's one of the shortcuts I'm using:

Is there something in the command that causes a slow launch? I'd be grateful for any tips on optimizing the launch. Or am I experiencing slow launches because the app I'm launching (My Bible) had pdbs that total close to 60MB?

App switching in the emulator is about as fast as it is natively on the Palm. My prob is that with a fully loaded store, I cannot install additional apps, and I cannot quickly switch from one store to another because the launch and shutdown times are very slow. I should add that my other stores are much smaller, and they launch reasonably fast.

By the way, I find it easiest to manage the stores, that is attach the gvmlauncher to one, by using a symlink. I've named my stores gvm.store.0, etc., and I can easily switch the store attached to the launcher by doing something like:
This makes it easy to do things such as installing apps.