You know, results like this brings a tear to my eye.

Turns out that all those grand claims from Google engineers about how Android 2.2 will literally run laps around the iPad (and iPhone 4) in terms of javascript performance was actually correct. You mean, a performance claim that is actually true? See, Steve, you don’t have to lie to get people to buy your product. I jest…

Using a Nexus One as my main phone, I haven’t noticed a dramatic UI performance boost between Android 2.1 and 2.2, but it is in the browser performance I have experienced the greatest boon to my happy fingers. Scrolling and pinch-to-zoom is smoother, and pages load much faster and, with Flash implementation, the web seems more complete compared to previous versions.

Anandtech, the industrious and scientific-minded site that they are, decided to confirm this quantifiably. Turns out the subjective speed increases are actually true. Froyo bests iOS4 by 50% on the SunSpider benchmark, and 400% on the V8 test. Both use multiple short exercises to test javascript performance in the browser.

Keep in mind this is on the iPhone 4, and not an iPhone 3GS running iOS4. So, yeah.

(Anandtech via Android Central)