Re:Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support
by shadowmatter on Monday April 09, 2012 @04:21PM
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I was testing this last night. It reduced the time for the emulator to cold boot from 120-130 seconds down to 45-55 seconds. Not as snappy as the iPhone simulator, but over cutting the time by over half is really substantial. Props to them.
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Re:Android: Faster emulator with better hardware support
by mike-cardwell on Monday April 09, 2012 @04:37PM
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I just tested it on my Lenovo Thinkpad T420. Takes about 65 seconds using a VM with the 2.3.3 ARM image, and 6 seconds using the 2.3.3 x86 image taking advantage of my CPUs VT instructions...
Literally 6 seconds after typing "emulator-x86 -avd TestImage -qemu -m 512 -enable-kvm" and hitting return, until I'm at the Android login screen.
This laptop has an i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz, 8GB of RAM and an SSD.