don't really care about the battery consumption because it has not been really consistent... but launching apps does sometimes take longer time with 0.9.7 (and 0.9.4 as well). Well, I screwed up my phone before installing 0.9.7 (did some stupid mistakes) and re-flashed PR1.2 (Wish I have seen the fix MALF guide mentioned in a previous post), so I guess reflashing doesn't really help reducing the time taken to launch an app.

but overall, apart of the launching time, my phone does feel a little bit more responsive