Re: Emulator Performance

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From: Alex Feinman [MVP] (public_news_at_alexfeinman.com)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:37:29 -0700

Allow me to disagree. In my experience the emulator running on a 2.54 GHz
Pentium 4 machine outperforms a PPC2002 device with 206GHz Intel CPU (Symbol
2800) 2-3:1. This is already very good. Where emulator is slower is anything
graphic-intensive, but as long as you stick with intrinsic controls and
regular forms, it is better if anything

The new emulator offers comparable performance, so I don't see why would you
want to instill a hope that it would magically fix things

The issue at hands is clearly a transport issue rather than emulator itself.
In myt experience it is typically resilced by reducing the number of open
debug windows, cold-resetting the emulator and making sure the computer IP
configuration is straightforward 

-- 
Alex Feinman
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""Ilya Tumanov [MS]"" <ilyatum@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> I'd say this is typical. There's nothing you can tweak besides using more
> powerful PC.
> Emulation is very slow in general, full power x86 is slowed down 10-20
> times because of it.
> Also, emulator is x86, so it's running slower version of CF's IJIT instead
> of highly optimized ARM version sJIT.
> There's a new ARM emulator coming with VS 2005 which would be way better.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Ilya
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no 
> rights.
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>> From: "Robert Bouillon" <djwhizzard@hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Emulator Performance
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>> I'm on a 2.4 GHz P4, 1GB DDR3200 2-3-2-2, I875P, SATA RAID0.
>>
>> My emulator performs most operations at the speed of a 233MHz ARM I have.
>>
>> Stepping into the program is slow: Loading the stack or local/watch
> windows
>> can take up to 30 seconds. Accessing variables can take up to 10 seconds
>> from within Visual Studio. I get a 1-2 second delay each step, stepping
>> through the program.
>>
>> I'm running the latest service packs on 2kServer.
>>
>> Is this performance typical? Is there any way to tweak this performance? 
>> I
>> would think a full-power x86 proc would perform significantly faster than
> a
>> low-power ARM. If not, are there any plans to improve the speed of the
>> Emulator for .NET?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --ROBERT
>>
>>
>>
>

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