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This was my 2009 new-years prediction... damn it, just out! The best demo is http://jancona.com/gordon/demos/blue.html http://jancona.com/gordon/demos/blue.html

by flog 17y ago

peregrine 17y ago
If you double click it it will kill Chrome. AW SNAP.
- Slashed 17y ago
  Don't know. Works fine for me..
  - peregrine 17y ago
    Probably cause I am using the Dev build. Oops, time to submit a bug report.
    - Slashed 17y ago
      Actually, I'm using Dev build as well.
      - pavs 17y ago
        Same here. Nothing happens. No Crashes. 4.0.288.1 stable build
      - gcb 17y ago
        Is there a non-dev build?!
- skoob 17y ago
  Then don't double click it.
- metachor 17y ago
  Just mousing over it causes all my Chrome tabs to crash, consistently. Using release(not Dev) build.
  - Nwallins 17y ago
    Interesting. I thought one Chrome tab should not be able crash another.
- drtse4 17y ago
  All the three demos work fine on chrome dev build 4.0.249.64
wensing 17y ago
Framerate on the iPhone is terrible for the part with all the stars, then quite good.
- tvon 17y ago
  Ditto, using a 3GS.
- JulesLt 17y ago
  Considering that the CPU usage on a Mac is lower than the Flash version of the same demo, that perhaps says a lot about the prospects of Flash on mobile devices . . .
  - Klonoar 17y ago
    That says nothing, considering this is coded up in an interpreted language (JS), compared to the speed of a compiled language (C/ObjC) on an official iPhone version of Flash, should there ever be one.
    - scythe 17y ago
      Languages aren't everything. Gnash, written in C++, never succeeded in replacing Flash even on platforms like *BSD where Flash was nonexistent. In particular, when dealing with Flash, feature-completeness is going to be much more important than perfect performance. Since the Flash VM on Linux and OS X is so slow and software-renders everything, it really won't take much to improve on it. The advantages of a dynamic language are probably going to far outweigh C++'s speed, and Javascript's similarity to Actionscript is icing. Plus, Javascript can take advantage of whatever hardware-accelerated graphics library the browser vendor chooses.
leoc 17y ago
Is there any kind of "Flashstone" benchmark app?

This was my 2009 new-years prediction... damn it, just out! The best demo is http://jancona.com/gordon/demos/blue.html http://jancona.com/gordon/demos/blue.html

by flog 17y ago

This was my 2009 new-years prediction... damn it, just out! The best demo is http://jancona.com/gordon/demos/blue.html http://jancona.com/gordon/demos/blue.html

peregrine 17y ago

If you double click it it will kill Chrome. AW SNAP.

Slashed 17y ago
Don't know. Works fine for me..
- peregrine 17y ago
  Probably cause I am using the Dev build. Oops, time to submit a bug report.
  - Slashed 17y ago
    Actually, I'm using Dev build as well.
    - pavs 17y ago
      Same here. Nothing happens. No Crashes. 4.0.288.1 stable build
    - gcb 17y ago
      Is there a non-dev build?!
skoob 17y ago
Then don't double click it.
metachor 17y ago
Just mousing over it causes all my Chrome tabs to crash, consistently. Using release(not Dev) build.
- Nwallins 17y ago
  Interesting. I thought one Chrome tab should not be able crash another.
drtse4 17y ago
All the three demos work fine on chrome dev build 4.0.249.64

wensing 17y ago

Framerate on the iPhone is terrible for the part with all the stars, then quite good.

tvon 17y ago
Ditto, using a 3GS.
JulesLt 17y ago
Considering that the CPU usage on a Mac is lower than the Flash version of the same demo, that perhaps says a lot about the prospects of Flash on mobile devices . . .
- Klonoar 17y ago
  That says nothing, considering this is coded up in an interpreted language (JS), compared to the speed of a compiled language (C/ObjC) on an official iPhone version of Flash, should there ever be one.
  - scythe 17y ago
    Languages aren't everything. Gnash, written in C++, never succeeded in replacing Flash even on platforms like *BSD where Flash was nonexistent. In particular, when dealing with Flash, feature-completeness is going to be much more important than perfect performance. Since the Flash VM on Linux and OS X is so slow and software-renders everything, it really won't take much to improve on it. The advantages of a dynamic language are probably going to far outweigh C++'s speed, and Javascript's similarity to Actionscript is icing. Plus, Javascript can take advantage of whatever hardware-accelerated graphics library the browser vendor chooses.

leoc 17y ago

Is there any kind of "Flashstone" benchmark app?