I am running the new update that came out today, just so I can get a good idea how everything works, and it runs nice to be honest
I am not sure, but i think this probably has CIQ and stuff so eventually you will see people making mods of this ROM that removed Bloat and CIQ, de-odexing, zip align and all that good stuff.
Compared to my CM7, this ROM works better becuase stuff like MMS when on WiFi works and my CM7 is beta and still has some issues to be worked out. It seems my CM7 is faster than this, but once Shabby, Blood or others come out with their stuff, it will be really close as far as speed goes