WOW!   Cyanogen has done it again.  I started seeing a new version of  CyanogenMod  ROM (version 5 beta) showing up on the list for the Nexus One.  How does a 245% speed improvement sound?  Holy Smoke!  Almost 2.5X faster!!   How’s he doing it?  It looks like JIT can be turned on.  JIT is the Just In Time compiler for Dalvik. 

Wayback a year ago,  a paper and presentation was put out about performance on Android.  This was done by a team from the Berlin Technical University.  The presentation was my inspiration to get Linpack for Android working.  A couple of the things that they pointed out that hinder Android was  that there was  1) No Just-in-Time compilation and it was 2) Optimized for small footprint, not raw performance.  It looks like Cyanogen is fixing that problem.  I wonder if it could help my G1?