Why is SVG scrolling performance so much worse than PNG?

Question

A site I\'m working on displays a large number (>50) of complex SVG images in a scrolling dialog window. When viewing the site in Chrome, the scrolling performance of the dialo

Answer 1

I think this is just some kind of a Chromium bug, I've found this issue on SO, because I started experiencing it as well on Mac. It works OK on Opera for instance.

I don't think anyone here will be able to explain why it's slow if it really is a bug. I've created a Chromium bug, please star it if you want the issue to be fixed soon or learn more https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=681611