One time I accidentally left SpinControl.app on for a week and went about my business (SpinControl, RIP, was an app that logged stack traces any time an app did

One time I accidentally left SpinControl.app on for a week and went about my business (SpinControl, RIP, was an app that logged stack traces any time an app didn't flush its event queue for more than a few seconds -- i.e. caused a beachball). A week later I came back and checked it to find something truly astounding: with hundreds of logged spins, 100% of them were due to flash. Usually in Safari, but sometimes in other embedded webkit contexts. You would expect a few spins to creep into that list from other causes, and indeed I triggered one with a mail index rebuild just to be make sure it was watching more than the browser process, but no, SpinControl was working fine. 100% of the beachballs in the last week were due to flash's suckiness, to say nothing of power usage or security. Flash's performance issues, at least on the mac, were very real. Good riddance. > much better than J2ME ever was. If you lower the bar to the ground anyone can jump over it.