On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:04 PM, bob b...@coolgroups.com wrote:
Does anyone know what the Android emulator bottleneck is on most PCs?
The bottleneck is in the emulator trying to do the graphics that it
normally does with hardware acceleration. As Xav pointed out in the
Android Development Tools Google I|O 2011 presentation, if you
create a Honeycomb emulator with QVGA screen size (not realistic for
production), it runs quickly.
Is it probably just the CPU?
Insofar as a faster CPU will help a bit with faster CPU-based graphics
work, yes. The real long-term answer is to get the UI to be rendered
outside of the qemu emulation environment, using the actual hardware
acceleration of your development machine. Watch the aforementioned
presentation on YouTube for a demo.
Does anyone know of a computer where the
emulator works at a decent speed?
2.2 on down work fine for me on a dual-core 2.5GHz notebook. 2.3 is a
bit sluggish. 3.x is painful even on a quad-core (not i7) 2.66GHz
desktop. An i7 with Turbo Boost may help, simply because the emulator
is single-threaded, so if you're not doing much else when the emulator
runs, you can get 3.4GHz or thereabouts, depending on CPU.
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