Not to mention that testing OpenGL games is impossible. The only way to test on devices is users, otherwise it's just a guessing and hoping for the best. In any case, I don't care WHY the emulator is so slow. Hopefully they'll make it fast in the near future, the iPhone emulator is much better.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Jonathan Foley <jonefo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As Dianne mentioned and others have before, the bottleneck is the > dynamic translation of ARM opcodes to x86 opcodes. Other VM's like > Vmware emulate hardware, but they are still executing code natively > albeit with some hypervisor that itself has direct hooks within modern > processors. The WebOS and WP7 and iOS emulators are all running builds > compiled natively for x86 so they are fast. The Android emulator does > not, though I don't see why it couldn't be. The emulator is unusable, > I only use real devices except for UI assessment on smaller screens, > though I use that less and less as the UI builder/previewer becomes > more feature rich. > > > Jonathan > > > On Jan 28, 11:19 pm, Marcin Orlowski <webnet.andr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > All I was trying to say that emulating of 1GHz of any non native code >> > at the instruction level will be slow on a 2Ghz host. I'd bet if you >> > tried to run a PacMan 8-bit CPU at 1GHz, it wouldn't emulate at full >> > speed or even come close. >> >> 8-bit or not is not directly related to possible emulation speed. And >> this is just type of architecture which is not >> the only factor that influences the whole process (and yes, you can >> run 8-bit pacman full speed on far slower devices - i.e. Spectrum >> emulator on Palm phone (which is 300MHz). I believe in case of Android >> the bottlenecks is not just different architecture but also a GPU >> support (or lack of h/w support of such) which hits performance badly. >> In general I believe it would help if Google could just spend a few >> bucks and simply hire bunch of folks from "emulators scene". > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- ~ Jeremiah:9:23-24 Android 2D MMORPG: http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/, http://www.youtube.com/user/revoltingx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
