If Dalvik is as you say by design tied into the ARM architecture then it may be able to achieve better performance than Java but will not have the kind of processor architecture independence which is part of the core purpose of Java in the first place. This is part of the inherent trade-off between designing for portability and tuning to specific hardware. For the moment it probably won't be such a problem as ARM is so dominant in the mobile phone space. Knowing more about the differences between the two platforms would be interesting for me though given it was also interesting to see the technical differences between the JVM and CLR in order to contrast then and consider the merits of different ways of doing things.
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