DISQUS

James Katt · 1 year ago

Flash is 10 TIMES SLOWER on Mac than on Windows.

This is a DISGUSTING difference in performance.
Adobe DOES NOT CARE about Apple or Mac.
This is PROOF.

If it ever wants Flash on iPhone, it has to IMPROVE Flash on Mac performance FIRST. The Mac and iPhone run the same core OS.

Paul Greatbatch · 1 year ago

All this is just good news for Quicktime.

Ryan · 1 year ago

I don't want Flash to run faster on my Mac, I just don't want Flash to run at all. Besides Youtube, what are the other applications of Flash? Those big annoying ads?

Snafu · 1 year ago

Unless the problem lies in OS X' APIs, actually. It wouldn't be the first time.

desinformado · 1 year ago

I really don't believe it is a OS X API problem, if so, you bet that Adobe will be screaming out loud that this is an Apple problem, maybe Adobe is punishing Apple because of Final Cut and Aperture....

Snafu · 1 year ago

Actually, people at Adobe explained that they found some bottlenecks in OS X' APIs. It is just that they don't usually "scream out loud" such things :). See http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081017-b...

"...As we've reported before, though, Adobe's engineers have discovered a bottleneck in Flash's text rendering. The GUIMark benchmark should be very sensitive to this because it spends more than half of its time testing a single Mac OS X text function: ATSUGetUnjustifiedBounds. As you'll see from our Mac OS X results below, performance has definitely improved in many respects on Mac OS X, though some Arsians suspect that other problems may still exist with Mac OS X's NSPlugin API..."