thought you would find this interesting: NOTE: All test were run on a iPad Mini:
1) Unity3D 4.6.1p5 - IL2CPP - ARMv7 = 5.695 sec.
2) Unity3D 4.6.1p5 - Mono - ARMv7 = 9.879 sec.
3) Xamarin.iOS 7.0.2.7 - Mono 3.2(LLVM=NO) - ARMv7 = 9.308 sec.
4) Xamarin.iOS 7.0.2.7 - Mono 3.2(LLVM=YES) - ARMv7 = 8.708 sec.