If you consider everything that goes into rasterizing a line of text, it's not entirely surprising that a bitmap draw is considerably faster. ("Cache to bitmap"

If you consider everything that goes into rasterizing a line of text, it's not entirely surprising that a bitmap draw is considerably faster. ("Cache to bitmap".) This is definitely a good place to optimize, though, if one needs to. What's super funky is the difference between Chrome and The Rest. I'd not have expected that. It's probably Google tracking your font rendering choices. ;-) ;-) Edit: "performance murder" and the opening graphic are pretty hilarious.