AspenSTi
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Yes, this is an optimized stock ROM. There were some very promising changes made in this ROM. For one mike1986 disabed software rendering and enabled full GPU rendering so graphic and animations should be smoother and there is less load on the CPU which helps with multi-tasking. ICS out the box was running good but mike1986 has optimized it quite well, the average user probably won't notice anything but after running a benchmark test I saw in he graph what has performed better. Writes to the internal memory seem faster, 2D and 3D graphics appear to be running better, RAM and CPU are showing better than stock. So there are improvements, maybe not noticeable but they are there nonetheless.
The kernel is an optimized stock kernel, the voltage has probably been lowered a bit for better battery life and CPU temperatures.
Also with setCPU you can underclock it to 350mhz(min) and 350mhz(max) when screen is off which will greatly increase your battery life. Haven't had one problem with this configuration and battery life has been great IMO.
Thanks for the clarification, i knew most were behind the scenes improvements, but now i understand a little more. I will fire up setcpu to see if that helps a little more with the screen off profile and battery life. It seems to be a little better now, but maybe with the setcpu profiles it will be even better. Just seems so nice, that the minor things i would change about the phone are being addressed and most of them fixed already!