title: Does Silverlight have a performance advantage over JavaScript?
body: <p>At a recent discussion on Silverlight the advantage of speed was brought up. The argument for Silverlight was that it performed better in the browser than Javascript because it is compiled (and managed) code.</p>
  
  <p>It was then stated that this advantage only applies to IE because IE interprets Javascript  which is inefficient when compared to that of other browsers such as Chrome and FireFox which compile Javascript to machine code before execution and as such perform as well as Silverlight.</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody have a definitive answer to this performance question. i.e. Do/will Silverlight and Javascript have comparable performance on Chrome and Firefox?</p>