One of the reasons the Android emulator is slow, it's because it has to emulate an arm chip to x86 instructions. So if I'm running an arm pc as my main dev pc... Would the emulator run magically fast? Like unicorns, rainbows and such?
Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
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Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
#52One of the reasons the Android emulator is slow, it's because it has to emulate an arm chip to x86 instructions. So if I'm running an arm pc as my main dev pc... Would the emulator run magically fast? Like unicorns, rainbows and such?
My guess is they would have to make a version of the SDK for ARM, and they haven't yet. But they may soon enough as these ARM chips get closer to PC-like performance, and more people buy ARM machines.
Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
#53One of the reasons the Android emulator is slow, it's because it has to emulate an arm chip to x86 instructions. So if I'm running an arm pc as my main dev pc... Would the emulator run magically fast? Like unicorns, rainbows and such?
Isn't the entire point of the JVM: "write once, deploy everywhere" ???
Emulating the architecture makes sense from the standpoint that you want your development and 'production' (ie, the devices/handsets) to be the same ... but the Android emulator is INCREDIBLY slow. The juice is not worth the squeeze.
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Any kind of application you have the source code to, which is nearly everything in Ubuntu repositories.
With the caveats that the application must be written in a language whose compiler/interpreter seamlessly supports ARM, and whose dependencies all take ARM into account wherever architecture-specific code is necessary.
Again, nearly everything in the Ubuntu repository.
Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
#55One of the reasons the Android emulator is slow, it's because it has to emulate an arm chip to x86 instructions. So if I'm running an arm pc as my main dev pc... Would the emulator run magically fast? Like unicorns, rainbows and such?
Isn't the entire point of the JVM: "write once, deploy everywhere" ??? Emulating the architecture makes sense from the standpoint that you want your development and 'production' (ie, the devices/handsets) to be the same ... but the Android emulator is INCREDIBLY slow. The juice is not worth the squeeze.
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Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
#56One of the reasons the Android emulator is slow, it's because it has to emulate an arm chip to x86 instructions. So if I'm running an arm pc as my main dev pc... Would the emulator run magically fast? Like unicorns, rainbows and such?
I guess you meant "was slow." As of now, the Android emulator ships with an Intel Atom image that uses Intel HAXM tech for native execution (and is much faster than using the ARM image/emulator) on an x86 machine.
Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
#57The A15 seems to be the same weight as the Macbook air. I always thought about buying an MBA, but I feared the hassle of installing Linux on it. Is the A15 my future development machine? All my development happens in ssh and firefox. So performance is not an issue.
I think performance is still an issue. currently there are no gpu accelerated drivers if I understand correctly for non-chromeos linux, so until someone puts the effort into making that work.
>non-chromeos linux
Or you could just use the pre-installed linux kernel underneath a distribution of your choice.
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I hope Google will partner with ASUS for its next chromebook. Or even Lenovo. I had bad experience with Samsung hardware.
The EEE PC 701 was a remarkable machine.
Always preferred the 9 series, the screen on the 7s was just a bit too small. My 901 is still going strong.
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However, it looks like it has an SD card socket as well as a USB 3.0 slot. That means you could put a 32GB SD card in there and have plenty of room for projects. If that ounce is too important, you could probably get away with an Xubuntu distribution that's fairly stripped down.
That is true: I could just leave a 32GB card in permanently. No reason to remove it.
And just in case you want to know what SD card you should get: Samsung MB-SSBGA (SDHC 32 GB Class 10) or MB-MSBGA (same thing as microSDHC).
Read Arnd Bergmann's comments here: https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJ...
Re: Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
However, it looks like it has an SD card socket as well as a USB 3.0 slot. That means you could put a 32GB SD card in there and have plenty of room for projects. If that ounce is too important, you could probably get away with an Xubuntu distribution that's fairly stripped down.
That is true: I could just leave a 32GB card in permanently. No reason to remove it.
The only problem is the way the SD card sticks out so far, it's pretty frustrating