Folio Rendering Speed in v20 Reader .ipa

I have been doing extensive testing of the v20 reader .ipa on an iPad 3.
Folio format is PDF - reverts to PNG when there are long smooth scrolling pages, or complex overlays. Not sure of the actual background image (being PDF) in all cases, but scrollable regions are PNG or JPEG.
My problem:
The time it takes to load pages on swipe. I have heard there is a performance boost for v21 in this regard, but cannot find any specific reference to this detail.
Could one of the adobephiles please post a definitive answer on performance between v20 and v21, if there is anything at all.
I have already looked at the URL which lists the pros and cons of PDF vs PNG, which was very useful.
Cheers
Fraser

I guess I am expecting pages to load reasonably fast. Apple looks at digimags as a lesser App, so slower loading is very much frowned upon becuase it isn't zippy.
I ran into some pretty horible issues yesterday (as in realised what the problem and the solution was) where we had a border around pages that consisted of fine pin lines, which once embedded in the PDF, caused the page loads to be in the order of 5-10 seconds.
So I am really looking for anecdotal evidence of what to do to avoid fat loading times.

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