Gingerbread emulator instance is much more sluggish than Froyo and below. Why?

Question

I\'m not sure if anyone else noticed it, but the Gingerbread emulator runs like a dog, with both scrolling, navigating, interaction - all taking much longer and being much c

Answer 1

After changing the screen resolution, the device ram, letting the device "warm up" and running on fresh new hardware I recorded the Honeycomb emulator speed.

Result at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7OR8vPsIak

I find it not much different then Gingerbread on older hardware. I do hope the host-accelerated GL finds its way to the SDK soon. For now plain development might be possible, but UX creation or demoing is impossible.