In the http://bl.ocks.org/1296930 benchmark I'm getting the following numbers: Chrome/24.0.1275.0 - ~27ms Safari Nightly/Safari/536.26.14 - ~15ms This was noticed by Stephen Bannasch in wkbug.com/94048. It's likely we can clean up the V8 <-> SVG code.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=231383