[jamesg]

QEMU is a truly awesome piece of code. Everything Fabrice Bellard does is incredible.

You could well be right that they're not using it correctly -- that sounds entirely plausible. I guess my point was more that, whatever the cause, the net effect of it is that the Apple Simulator is unrealistically fast, and the Android Emulator is unrealistically slow. Neither really encourage great development if you rely on them.

[Locke1689]

Agreed -- I just wanted to defend QEMU (and my own work, by extension) for a moment.

Also, code can always be made to go slower so I'm not sure if "unrealistically fast" is as bad a "unrealistically slow."