Why is the Android tablet emulator so slow? Is there way to speed it up?

My tablet is not here yet, which is why I have to use the emulator for development for now. But it is soooo slow, and it is almost not usable. Does anybody has any trick to speed it up a bit?

I am working on a very decent machine:

MacBook Pro, 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo, 8G Memory, SSD.

Thanks

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There are a number of answers to a near identical question here.

Answer

It is slow because it is emulating an ARM processor on an x86 machine. This means that:

1. All hardware acceleration is lost and has to be emulated in software, and


2. All the system calls have to be restructured.

Google is working on better ways of doing graphics, but nothing is released yet.