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As it should be done - amen!

by dbrannan 16y ago

MikeCapone 16y ago
I can't help but wonder if there's a catch. Has anyone had a chance to look at the code? Any bad surprises?
- mahmud 16y ago
  Adobe willfully open sourced the ActionScript engine that runs its flash player, and donated it to the Mozilla foundation, under MIT license. If you run Firefox, you have been running Adobe code for a few years now. Did you see a catch? where you ever prompted to buy Acrobat Writer or an Omniture subscription? Don't think so :-) It's really time developers added Adobe to their "friends" list, imo.
  - MikeCapone 16y ago
    > It's really time developers added Adobe to their "friends" list, imo. I'm not a developer. As a user, I'll add Adobe to my "friends" list as soon as they have a decent implementation of Flash for OS X that doesn't take tons of memory and CPU cycles. Flash is the only thing that can make me restart Chrome because it becomes a resource hog...
    - mahmud 16y ago
      The research on this has been done, a few years ago, by professors in Ireland and Austria. Adobe is one VM upgrade away from being on-par with Android/Dalvik, SquirrelFish and LuaJit, in terms of performance. Adobe already has the technology to improve performance under their noses, but I don't know what is taking them so long. But I can tell you this: once they implement the already published fixes, you can expect at least 60% performance improvement in Flash player, by my calculations .. -- edit, removed irrelevant facts.
    - InclinedPlane 16y ago
      In chrome hit shift+esc, find the flash plugin process and hit "end process", it'll restart itself automatically as necessary (you may have to refresh pages hosting flash elements).
  - protomyth 16y ago
    > It's really time developers added Adobe to their "friends" list, imo. Maybe after they fire some of their bloggers for continually stirring up the pot and stop adding to PDF in a that puts everyone else at a disadvantage. Open standards kinda need to be open in the changing.

As it should be done - amen!

MikeCapone 16y ago

I can't help but wonder if there's a catch. Has anyone had a chance to look at the code? Any bad surprises?

mahmud 16y ago
Adobe willfully open sourced the ActionScript engine that runs its flash player, and donated it to the Mozilla foundation, under MIT license. If you run Firefox, you have been running Adobe code for a few years now. Did you see a catch? where you ever prompted to buy Acrobat Writer or an Omniture subscription? Don't think so :-) It's really time developers added Adobe to their "friends" list, imo.
- MikeCapone 16y ago
  > It's really time developers added Adobe to their "friends" list, imo. I'm not a developer. As a user, I'll add Adobe to my "friends" list as soon as they have a decent implementation of Flash for OS X that doesn't take tons of memory and CPU cycles. Flash is the only thing that can make me restart Chrome because it becomes a resource hog...
  - mahmud 16y ago
    The research on this has been done, a few years ago, by professors in Ireland and Austria. Adobe is one VM upgrade away from being on-par with Android/Dalvik, SquirrelFish and LuaJit, in terms of performance. Adobe already has the technology to improve performance under their noses, but I don't know what is taking them so long. But I can tell you this: once they implement the already published fixes, you can expect at least 60% performance improvement in Flash player, by my calculations .. -- edit, removed irrelevant facts.
  - InclinedPlane 16y ago
    In chrome hit shift+esc, find the flash plugin process and hit "end process", it'll restart itself automatically as necessary (you may have to refresh pages hosting flash elements).
- protomyth 16y ago
  > It's really time developers added Adobe to their "friends" list, imo. Maybe after they fire some of their bloggers for continually stirring up the pot and stop adding to PDF in a that puts everyone else at a disadvantage. Open standards kinda need to be open in the changing.