AIR 2.6 performance on iOS devices

When I first tried iOS packager it looked too raw and slow to use in real applications. But the technology was very promising and product was obviously far from release. A new version of AIR (2.6) was released recently and it is claimed that performance on iOS devices was improved. I downloaded new AIR SDK and repackaged sample iOS application. However, I wasn't able to detect any significant performance boost. In fact, application seemed to work even slower on iPad. What is weird, I could see some speed increase on iPhone 4. But neither execution performance on iPad, nor on iPhone is not even close to the execution speed of the same application (although packaged with AIR 2.5) on Android device (Galaxy Tab). I can imagine that Android packaging could work for me. But execution on iOS devices is definitely too slow so far. Btw, I use Flash Builder Burrito and Flash Hero SDK with new mobile flex components for the development.
The question is, what is your experience with AIR 2.6 iOS packager? Any significant increase in performance? Are there any special steps required to turn on iOS performance optimization in builder or packager?
I'm going to try AIR 2.6 Android packager next. Will post an update when done.

sorr for the dupe, but i already posted this in the iOS packager forum:
the one big advantage with 2.6 publishing is, that the app behaves as it should when it comes to moving objects performance slowdown.
Before performance would break down in strange ways if I inserted too many moving objects in my sandbox. Now the framerate just goes down when raising the objects count.
If you want, check out the video of my proto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE56XCG06FM
Same principle as with FlashKevin. Just Sprites and scripting no timeline stuff, one enterframe thats handles all the object controllers. GPU accelerated.
You absolutely have to use cacheAsBitmapMatrix or else Sprites/Bitmaps will look jaggy and performance just sucks bigtime. I am also setting cacheAsBitmap = true.
I had some bad performance, when i packaged a project that ran fine with the old packager due to a stage scaling issue.
Performance on the ipad seemed to be really bad when publishing a iPhone project without "stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE" with 2.6.
I am actually pretty happy with this release (at the moment).
Simon

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