Can I tweak my android emulator to make it fast?

Question

I am using the android emulator to run my programs. But its really slow. It takes around 90 seconds to startup and show the home screen. Can I tweak it so that I can reduce

Answer 1

Scaling the emulator down made my emulator load faster...

emulator -cpu-delay 0 -no-boot-anim -cache ./cache -scale 0.8 -avd avd_name