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by spleeder 4130 days ago
I think this is a very good question, and the short answer in my opinion is yes, canvas rendering would make it much faster (as the guys at Flipboard have shown [1]). The downside is you would have to implement your own rendering engine from scratch which is quite challenging.

[1] http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web/