If you turn on "Show Paint Rectangles" you see the entire SVG element is being repainted on every change, including rotating. Chrome doesn't handle this animati

If you turn on "Show Paint Rectangles" you see the entire SVG element is being repainted on every change, including rotating. Chrome doesn't handle this animation as good as it could, so in the meantime, they should to adopt a technique described by Charlie Marsh here: http://www.crmarsh.com/svg-performance/ http://www.crmarsh.com/svg-performance/