It really depends on the program load. In general, Mono is just a more mature VM than Dalvik is, so it is rare for Dalvik to match Mono (although there are a

It really depends on the program load. In general, Mono is just a more mature VM than Dalvik is, so it is rare for Dalvik to match Mono (although there are a couple of cases where it matches it). The other problem is that Dalvik uses a model that limits the amount of memory your app can use, so most of the heavy duty tests could not be ran to compare the apps, since Dalvik would crash with an out of memory condition while Mono does not impose this limit. Dalvik has also other ugly limitations, like their GC being suspended whenever a JNI invocation is taking place.