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That video was hovering around 88% CPU usage whilst playing. It's hard to get excited about a technology you know'll ultimately just burn your battery at a dire

by ashleyw 17y ago

That video was hovering around 88% CPU usage whilst playing. It's hard to get excited about a technology you know'll ultimately just burn your battery at a dire rate in comparison to a native app.

dirtbox 17y ago
I smell a rushed out product here so there's not a lot of hope for it having been fully optimised in the way flash has been for Windows (the video was using 8% CPU on my win7 system btw). But at least they're actually fighting back with something other than cheap digs and made up facts and figures this time. Maybe they fired the PR department and hired better programmers.
- mrj 17y ago
  Rushed out? They've been working on it for at least a year, probably much longer. And they're not really introducing anything new, just a mobile port. If anything they're taking way, way too long. It makes no sense to harp on Apply when they haven't even been able to release on a willing platform yet.
  - dirtbox 17y ago
    Sure. Their entire drive recently has been to prove to Apple and the rest of the world that they're worth keeping around. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this release has been pushed forward by a few months.
- CoreDumpling 17y ago
  On the one hand, I have to salute them for diversifying their offerings and broadening the reach of the Flash platform. Like it or not, there is still a lot of Flash content that's actually worth having on mobile devices. On the other hand, I can't help but think that Adobe is sacrificing depth for breadth, and spreading their resources thin across all the areas where they are trying to compete. Considering how poorly Flash runs on Linux and OSX, I'm nervous about this devolving into yet another "write once, debug everywhere" nightmare.
fnid2 17y ago
40% for me with Firefox on a 2 yr old bootcamped Mac book pro and XP.
Zak 17y ago
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6566 zak 20 0 161m 35m 15m R 60 0.9 0:28.16 npviewer.bin That does seem to be a bit much to simply uncompress and render a low-res video on a T9600 running 64-bit Linux.

by ashleyw 17y ago

That video was hovering around 88% CPU usage whilst playing. It's hard to get excited about a technology you know'll ultimately just burn your battery at a dire rate in comparison to a native app.

dirtbox 17y ago

I smell a rushed out product here so there's not a lot of hope for it having been fully optimised in the way flash has been for Windows (the video was using 8% CPU on my win7 system btw). But at least they're actually fighting back with something other than cheap digs and made up facts and figures this time. Maybe they fired the PR department and hired better programmers.

mrj 17y ago
Rushed out? They've been working on it for at least a year, probably much longer. And they're not really introducing anything new, just a mobile port. If anything they're taking way, way too long. It makes no sense to harp on Apply when they haven't even been able to release on a willing platform yet.
- dirtbox 17y ago
  Sure. Their entire drive recently has been to prove to Apple and the rest of the world that they're worth keeping around. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this release has been pushed forward by a few months.
CoreDumpling 17y ago
On the one hand, I have to salute them for diversifying their offerings and broadening the reach of the Flash platform. Like it or not, there is still a lot of Flash content that's actually worth having on mobile devices. On the other hand, I can't help but think that Adobe is sacrificing depth for breadth, and spreading their resources thin across all the areas where they are trying to compete. Considering how poorly Flash runs on Linux and OSX, I'm nervous about this devolving into yet another "write once, debug everywhere" nightmare.

fnid2 17y ago

40% for me with Firefox on a 2 yr old bootcamped Mac book pro and XP.

Zak 17y ago

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6566 zak 20 0 161m 35m 15m R 60 0.9 0:28.16 npviewer.bin That does seem to be a bit much to simply uncompress and render a low-res video on a T9600 running 64-bit Linux.