I experience the same problems. Coding Sencha Touch 2 in MVC format makes the app's respond super-slow on "old" hardware. Especially Android.
It's the drawback of HTML5 vs Native. However they claim the performance would increase when manually building the lib, I experienced almost no improvement.
I had a similar problem, in my case the solution was this.
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