Benchmark of HTML5 Canvas Javascript performance in Firefox and other browsers

[Andreas Rosdal]

Hello,

I have performed some benchmarks comparing the performance of the
HTML5 canvas element
in various browsers here: http://code.google.com/p/freeciv-forever/wiki/FreecivBenchmarkResults

The benchmark measures the performance of the canvas element for use
in the 2d isometric
game, which can be tested on http://www.freeciv.net/

As can be seen from the results, Google Chrome and Safari has much
better results
than Firefox in my tests. I would appreciate any feedback or
suggestions which
would bring the performance in Firefox up to a level comparable to
Google Chrome.
This benchmark could also be used to evaluate improvements to the
canvas
implementation in Firefox, since it is clear that Google Chrome
performs much faster in my tests.

- Andreas