According to the first post by NRGZ28:
"I build my ROMs with four main goals.
- Eye candy
- Speed !!!
- Smoothness, consistency and good aesthetics
- Stability through private beta testing before public release"
Also, as far as battery life is concerned, it takes a few complete power cycles for the driver to "learn" the battery drain characteristics after a new flash. Of course it's simply impossible for a battery to lose 11% of it's charge in a second; where would it go? lol
Even so, these ROM's usually give me just over a day of charge. That's just fine with me; I just plug it in at night anyway.
About the memory leak: disable the eReader and document tabs. I don't know if it helps, but my TP2 stays under 70%. Yeah it goes way up when I use Opera, but it goes back down after I close it.