I think that Renderscript is not meant as replacement for native C++ code. Rather it's an platform independent and easy way to give a programmer more performanc

I think that Renderscript is not meant as replacement for native C++ code. Rather it's an platform independent and easy way to give a programmer more performance power (beyond Java). I guess that if you need real performance or more control you'll have go the NDK route anyways. But if you just want to write another Instagram clone then Renderscript is the way to go.