[android-developers] Re: Android SDK is so slow that is ridiculous.

> (and yes, you can
> run 8-bit pacman full speed on far slower devices - i.e. Spectrum
> emulator on Palm phone (which is 300MHz).

I meant "if" Pacman's 8080 were running at 1GHz. No way it could be
emulated at full speed on a 2GHz i86, if each instruction is emulated
individually -- not even close. Even with caching or other
optimizations, you would have to read/decode/execute/write in a
handful of processor cycles. And that assuming you would have 100% of
the cycles available to you, which you don't.

The iOS "emulator" is Mac specific and it's probably more like a
simulator than an emulator. I believe the only real viable solution
is to simulate an Android system below at some cut-off layer. Even
if the emulated processor is running at 600Mhz which is about the
speed of the slowest Android devices, trying to emulate such an
advanced processor architecture at an acceptable speed will not work.
Actually, I am quite suprised that it's running as good as it is, so
without knowing all details, it's possible that some things are
already simulated, not emulated.

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