Dalvik isn't very fast already; I doubt a native Python runtime is that much slower for lightweight tasks. The usual caveats apply, of course, in that you shoul

Dalvik isn't very fast already; I doubt a native Python runtime is that much slower for lightweight tasks. The usual caveats apply, of course, in that you shouldn't try to do things that are ill-suited to your target platform (be it Python or Dalvik).