See http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/unleashing-gpu-acceleration...
The 60x increase is in two of the demos from the "IE9 Platform Preview Test Drive 2D canvas demos" found here - http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
The 60x increase is in two of the demos from the "IE9 Platform Preview Test Drive 2D canvas demos" found here - http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
When I read the article I also thought about just normal browsing page load times. That is already so fast that a 60x increase is hardly noticeable. That just makes the news trivial and the chromium team look like freakish geeks with nothing better to do than crunching numbers that only a machine can read.
That is until I looked at the demo video, which I missed on the article and only found about here. I can see that, particularly with that photo wall and the painter thing, snappiness is what would make them work.