Mobile device support will likely be a no-no too, as the POUR process takes about 2 minutes to run on that i7, so mobile devices will be 10x at least. Punchy hardware only please for that

Im not aware of any performance improvements recently though (and I haven't really had the time to check up), so if anyone knows of any information, I'd appreciate a link/reference to it.
CredaCash uses a similar zero knowledge proof and can create a private transaction in 3-6 seconds. It was started as an independent project long before Zcash was announced and is currently in beta. The bitcoin talk announcement is at
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1629155.0 , there's a Windows x64 executable at
https://credacash.com/software/ and the source code is at
https://github.com/credacash/