Remember back in February when everyone was going crazy about Myriad Group’s new optimizations to Android’s Dalvik Virtual Machine? Well they haven’t slowed down just because Google baked the same optimizations into Android 2.2. They’ve announced that they’ll soon be releasing their version of Dalvik for free in conjunction with MIPS on their community site for MIPS-based devices.

When we saw the demo of the technology at the Mobile World Congress, it reportedly only offered ~2x more performance than the original Dalvik VM. Now, they’re claiming to have achieved a performance boost of 5x, putting it right around the range that Google’s reporting with the JIT-enabled vession.

From the sound of it, there really doesn’t seem to be much of a difference between Dalvik Turbo and the JIT-enabled Dalvik that Google’s bringing, but their one claim to fame is that this will be compatible with all versions of Android from 1.0 (ha!) all the way up to 2.2 and beyond.

We’ll update you when this finally becomes available.

[via IntoMobile]