Is putImageData faster than drawImage?

I take no credit for putting this test together, but you can clearly see the performance of using drawImage() with both a canvas and an image as well as the performance of putImageData() here:

http://jsperf.com/canvas-drawimage-vs-putimagedata/3

As of right now, drawImage() is much faster than putImageData(). Last I heard, this was not intended and the browser developers were looking into improving the performance gap.