I would guess a chunk of the performance difference comes from the fact that the iPhone shares a lot of APIs with Mac OS and as the iPhone emulator only runs on Mac OS they can make calls directly to the OS, whereas the Android emulator runs on a hardware emulator and thus has an extra level of processing to do.
Also, if your 2Ghz Athlon X2 is the Athlon X2 3800 then an iMac from 2 years ago or the current bottom of the range mac mini would have just under 20% more CPU power according to http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html (3800x2=CPU mark of 901, iMac 2Ghz Duo=1056). Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 14 April 2009 09:34 To: Android Developers Subject: [android-developers] Re: emulator speed PC is fairly up-to-date spec - AMD Athlon X2 2 GHz, 2 GB's of RAM. Mac I don't have (yet), but I have been trolling on iPhone forums and have heard that iPhone emulator is unrealistically fast. On Apr 14, 9:04 am, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote: > What are the specs of the PC and Mac you're trying it on? > > Al. > > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: 14 April 2009 09:04 > To: Android Developers > Subject: [android-developers] emulator speed > > Why is pc android emulator slower than real device but mac iphone > emulator faster than real device? > > I can understand the latter but not the former! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
