title: Honeycomb Android emulator is dog slow - will it get manageable before the official release?
body: <p>I thought the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4432531/gingerbread-emulator-instance-is-much-more-sluggish-than-froyo-and-below-why">Gingerbread emulator was slow</a>, but man - the Honeycomb emulator is so slow on a modern PC, it's practically unusable. Since Reto Meier asked to throw up our Honeycomb questions onto StackOverflow, here is mine - will it get faster any time soon? How are we expected to develop apps for tablets when I want to pull my hair out instead?</p>
  
  <p>The SDK tools site now <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/tools-notes.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mentions</a> "Known issues with emulator performance: Because the Android emulator must simulate the ARM instruction set architecture on your computer, emulator performance is slow. We're working hard to resolve the performance issues and it will improve in future releases" but I'm wondering just how soon these future releases with the fixes will be coming out.</p>