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Next Version Of Flash Player To See Performance Leap

Adobe released Flash Player 10 beta 2 via its Adobe Labs website this week. According to one of its developers, the new mac version promises to bring up to 3 times the performance for certain operations.

If you have followed GUIMark at all you will notice that this version of the player runs this benchmark substantially better on OSX than any previous Flash Player version. It should be up to 3 times faster.


In a separate posting written before the release, he points out one text animation that achieved 8.5 frames per second (fps) before the optimization and then 28 fps afterwards in Safari.

Lastly I want to mention that the Flash Player is optimized for both x86 and PPC. It always has been. But these kind of benchmarks are really useful for us to identify platform specific bottlenecks like in this case.


There is no firm timeline for Flash Player 10's release, however the developer indicates that development is beginning to wrap up. Flash Player 10 will add a host of new features including some GPU-based processing (similar to Core Image).

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47 months ago
is flash on the iphone now?

Gonna buy 3g, just wondered cause lots of fuss was made.
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47 months ago
If they can really deliver Windows Flash - like speeds on OS X, that would be about time wonderful. I hope they deliver the same for Linux soon, as well....
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47 months ago
awesome!! faster ads in my face
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47 months ago

is flash on the iphone now?

Gonna buy 3g, just wondered cause lots of fuss was made.

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I was wondering the same thing...no one has mentioned flash on the 3g iphone
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47 months ago

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I was wondering the same thing...no one has mentioned flash on the 3g iphone


They have mentioned it many times, actually. It's not coming to the iPhone. End of story.
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47 months ago
It's about bloody time! ;)
3 x Sluggish speed should make it usable again! :)
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47 months ago
What about flash player 64bit?
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47 months ago

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I was wondering the same thing...no one has mentioned flash on the 3g iphone


No one is expecting it to have it. Not at launch, in any event.

Here is Adobe's most recent statement on their iPhone Flash status:

http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/iphone-3g-can-adobe-make-flash.html
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47 months ago

What about flash player 64bit?


what about it? do you really need 64 for the flash player?
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47 months ago

what about it? do you really need 64 for the flash player?


I think he wants Flash Player to work on 64 bits browsers, i.e. Safari 64 bits (Snow Leopard) or IE 7 64 bits (Vista 64 bits).
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