http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/11/exclusive-androidpolice-coms-nexus-one-is-running-android-2-2-froyo-how-fast-is-it-compared-to-2-1-oh-only-about-450-faster/
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Linpack for Android was specifically created to test the performance of Dalvik VM which, in short, is the heart and the brains of Android.
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Just so you have an idea of the kind of scores you can expect from the benchmark, let me list a few sample numbers:
- the Nexus One running Android 2.1 gets about 6.5-7 MFLOPS
- my HTC Hero averages a measly score of about 2 MFLOPS (the phone is pretty slow indeed)
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So how does the Nexus One with Froyo do?
A whopping 37.5 MFLOPS.
Think about this for a second. 37.6, compared to 6.5-7 – that’s about a 450% speed improvement.
Conclusion
Things are starting to finally come together. Flash and huge performance gains, all in the same release. Flash is CPU hungry, so Android makes everything about the environment more efficient.
Do you see it? Adobe wasn’t giving Apple what they needed, and Apple wasn’t giving Adobe, well, anything.
But Google thought of the problem outside the box, like the ingenious engineers to the core that they are and made Android so much faster than it could finally run full Flash without a hitch.
Oh yeah, the phone is indeed noticeably faster.
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O_O
450%?!
I know it's not going to be 450% for everything, but daaaaamn...
Talk about making room for Flash...
