To follow up on this, I have a 2.3 ghz i7 version of jonp has. When I run windows on it, I find the emulator as slow as you say John. To add to what Jonp says, there are two additional items you can do:1. the no-boot-anim option keeps that useless pulsating "ANDROID" graphic won't steal the cpu cycles to just start up the emulator.2. play with the snapshot option in the emulator. It can be helpful in speedup startup as well. Its not great, but it can be helpful. Beyond that, does anyone else have any suggestions on startup options? Wally
> From: j...@xamarin.com > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:29:51 -0500 > To: j...@murray.gb.com; monodroid@lists.ximian.com > Subject: Re: [mono-android] using emulator to test webclient > > On Nov 29, 2011, at 6:14 PM, John Murray wrote: > > I find the emulator excruciatingly slow on an i5 machine with 4gb ram win 7 > > Any comments - ideas on speeding it up ? > > I run the emulator on a 2.2GHz i7 with 8GB RAM (MBP 15", OS X 10.7 Lion), and > find it to be slow...but not excruciatingly slow (at least once it's done > booting -- enable snapshots [0]). Perhaps I'm just very patient? (I also > don't run the debugger often. I still live in a world of "printf" debugging.) > > The single most important thing to do is to make the screen as small as > possible -- QVGA. The emulator doesn't have any form of hardware video > acceleration, so the entire UI is rendered in (arm-emulated!) software, so > the smaller the screen size, the better. You can also use `emulator -scale > 0.75` to scale the screen size, which reportedly also helps. > > Unfortunately there's currently no way to provide additional options to the > `emulator` command from the IDE, so if you're doing this you need to run: > > emulator -partition-size 512 -scale 0.75 -avd INSERT_AVD_NAME_HERE > > - Jon > > [0] http://tools.android.com/recent/emulatorsnapshots > > _______________________________________________ > Monodroid mailing list > Monodroid@lists.ximian.com > > UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
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