Is Cyanogenmod faster/snappier than stock Nexus S 4G build?

[Skunkape60]

I'm sort of a flashaholic. I have and still load all of the ics roms on xda except for miui. None of them (over clocked) are as fast as a good (over clocked) gingerbread ROM. And unless you over clock, none of the ics roms can beat stock gingerbread. I've seen one or two that came close.

This is of course on my phone which I admit, has difficulty running most ics roms up to this point. But the ones that it does run on, runs very well. I would have to say my phone runs really well on oICS but ran very poorly on cyanogenmod. But then I can only have one daily driver.

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[tokuzumi]

I've always used HTC phones, so my experience is comparing sense roms to aosp roms...in which case the aosp roms almost always perform better.

I was using dooderbutt ICS v6, I think, for about a week (I've only had the device that long...). I was also using one of Matrix's kernels (v14.5). While the OS ran rather well, it would run low on memory, which would cause the launcher to reload all the time, when I was exiting out of apps. Also, web browsing would become super slow. The pages would load quickly, but I would be greeted with a white screen. If I would scroll around, I would get a block of the page to show up, followed slowly by other blocks. Some parts of the blocks would be out of focus, almost pixelated, while other parts would be in focus. And sometimes the browser would stop responding to the capacitive back button.

I ended up going back to Gingerbread, using the latest stable CM7 rom (7.1.0.1). The device runs extremely well, and has been largely issue free.

I hope when the official ICS release for the NS4G (4.0.4, or whatever it is), improves upon my experience with ICS.