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Re: Not so Flash, Flash still sloow like molase on Mac

Snafu — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:12:24 -0000

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...

"...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..."

Re: Not so Flash, Flash still sloow like molase on Mac

MegaOfertasRD — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:10:59 -0000

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....

Re: Not so Flash, Flash still sloow like molase on Mac

Snafu — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:38:02 -0000

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

Re: Not so Flash, Flash still sloow like molase on Mac

Ryan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:10:32 -0000

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?

Re: Not so Flash, Flash still sloow like molase on Mac

Paul Greatbatch — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:04:29 -0000

All this is just good news for Quicktime.

Re: Not so Flash, Flash still sloow like molase on Mac

James Katt — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:54:32 -0000

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.