Cruiser18

I recently worked on a project that tried to improve the performance of :damuro:.  As part of this project I did a lot of testing and benchmarking of various HTML5 operations.  I learned a lot about where one must be careful when writing web applications that use HTML5’s element.  The following is a diary of sorts that I made while working on the project.  Of course your milage may vary depending on the setup of your application, but as you will see, :damuro: realized significant performance improvements when I applied the lessons I learned.  
Conclusions
For those who don't want to read this whole long and rambling article, here are the main rules to live by as suggested by my testing:
Reduce direct pixel manipulation as much as possible.  Use the line drawing API when possible, and when you must sample pixels get as few as possible.  
Rendering shad