That's what I'm saying. Maemo makes way better use of system resources than Android. In the dark days of 1.6, it wasn't rare to see the CPU working its arse off, doing nothing. I had installed some memory and system management utilities and many a time I wanted to bang my head into the nearest wall. The latter versions were much better, but still if you found the phone on a bad day even opening a media player could grind the phone to a halt (in 1.6, opening a media player would ALWAYS grind the phone to a halt).

Maemo, for all its quirks and idiocyncrasies, was never as bad. Optimize it for OMAP 2, make the process scheduler and memory manager more aggressive, give it a lighter UX, and the phone will do, not excellently, but passably. I can guarantee you that even modern low end androids today do no better (anything lower than an 800 mhz OMAP3, and even that's pushing it).