According to people at AndroidPolice who claimed to have access to FroYo (Android 2.2).  They have run a speed test and the result shows a 450% improvement from Android 2.1. the Nexus One running Android 2.1 gets about 6.5-7 MFLOPS the HTC Hero averages a measly score of about 2 MFLOPS (the phone is pretty slow indeed) And Nexus with FroYo is running at 37.5 MFLOPS! That is most likely the effect of the new JIT for [...]

Ever wonder why applications running on Android handset don’t seem to running faster than those running on iPhone even the CPU used in the handset is much faster than the one used in iPhone?  That is because Android is using a virtual machine called Dalvik to run the Android applications.  It is similar to Java on desktop and some of the mobile phones.  Basically it is a software layer in the phone to provide an [...]