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by pcwalton 4567 days ago
Citation on the 15-30% claim? We see more like 50%, including compilation time. Sometimes much faster on certain benchmarks (Bullet IIRC?) now that float32 support has landed.
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https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/monster-madness-creating-g...

This is from a link in the article for more information. These Monster Madness fellows found Firefox gave them 33% of native performance, and Chrome 20%. Presumably IE would give you fractions of these figures.

I figured that, rather than citing figures from benchmarks, I'd go for the real world scenario that this release has given us.

Those figures seem to be in the context of a week long initial port. The team lead uses a figure of 50% in the video.
Also, much of these games is 3D rendering, and WebGL runs at essentially full native performance.