Android 2.2 Tested, Over 5 Times Faster than 2.1 in Some Benchmarks

From DailyTech: These days with its ever expanding army of handsets, which just passed the iPhone in U.S. market share, Google's Android doesn't need too much extra help to obtain dominance. However, Google isn't pulling any punches -- that much is obvious from early speed tests from the latest version of the OS.

Android Police obtained an early copy of the upcoming OS update Android 2.2 (codenamed Froyo, short for "frozen yogurt") and have benchmarked it using the utility Linpack. Linpack is designed to test Davlik virtual machines -- and the core of Android is a Davlik VM.

The authors of Linpack describe it, writing:

The LINPACK Benchmarks are a measure of a system’s floating point computing power. Introduced by Jack Dongarra, they measure how fast a computer solves a dense N by N system of linear equations Ax = b, which is a common task in engineering. The solution is obtained by Gaussian elimination with partial pivoting, with 2/3*N3 + 2*N2 floating point operations. The result is reported in Millions of FLoating-point Operations Per Second (MFLOP/s, sometimes simply called FLOPS).

The HTC Nexus One with Android 2.1 received a score of 6.5 to 7 MFLOPS, still impressive compared to the HTC Hero's lesser score of 2 MFLOPS. The Nexus One with Android 2.2 blows both of them away, though, posting a score of 37.593. That's a 450 percent performance gain over Android 2.1, at least. To put that further in perspective, an Eee PC scores about 66 MFLOPS, at max.

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