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On 6/6/2011 2:15 PM, BGB wrote:
> I was curious earlier, and downloaded the Android SDK, and made an
> inconvenient observation:
> the emulator is slow...
>
> emulating an older version of Android, it is ok, but trying to emulate a
> newer version, performance is unusably slow.
>
>
> maybe a similar issue might apply to iOS, meaning that maybe the
> emulated version is not an adequate representation of how it will behave
> on real HW...
>

I must mention that it's not the case with the iOS simulator. I've been 
using it for sometime now, and it always starts in a snap and responds 
amazingly well. It's the envy of my colleagues who code for the Android 
and Blackberry platforms using Eclipse, where the emulators take forever 
to load.

>
> dunno...