On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 8:02:01 PM UTC+2, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > > Unfortunately, it turned out that performance was way below what could be > > practically useful. Inputting text takes like 10-20 seconds per > > character... > > > > > > Q: Is this to be expected? > > > > That's surprisingly slow. Running the ARM emulator under Linux yields at > > least a couple of key presses per second in the SMS app. Admittedly I'm > > using a pretty fast machine but a 20x slow-downs seems excessive. It's > > possible that running the qemu's emulation code within VMWare is > > triggering some particularly slow code-paths or something. > > > > > Q: Any plans to make emulator-based B2G development a bit more realistic? > > I'm only interested in the platform stuff so I can't use the simulator. > > > > You should try running it on a native Linux installation. I use the > > emulator quite frequently for development and we even run entire > > test-suites on it. It's slower than an actual phone but not *that* slow. > > > > > Q: Would a standalone box like Dell's XPS 13 with Ubuntu + i7 + 8G RAM and > > SSD be useful? > > > > The emulator speed is almost entirely limited by single-threaded > > performance so the faster box you can buy the better but don't expect > > miracles from it. I'd try running it natively first and contemplate an > > upgrade only if that's still too slow.
Thanx Gabriele, I tried the Android emulator as well and got the same result so I must get me a specific B2G-box running Ubuntu. Cheers, Anders > > > > Gabriele _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
