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It was however also massively inefficient, to the point that this quality is one that I remember Flash the most for. I don’t miss random websites with flash ads
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
It was however also massively inefficient, to the point that this quality is one that I remember Flash the most for. I don’t miss random websites with flash ads and YouTube videos spiking CPU to 100% on my single core system, slowing everything down and spinning fans up.
Had Adobe fixed this (along with the numerous vulnerabilities) I don’t think users would’ve so eager to rid themselves of it.
- userbinator 4y agoThat's the implementation, not the format (which is very well designed for low computing power.) You're right that Adobe made it worse, however; when it was still called Macromedia Flash, the hardware of the time was more than enough to produce smooth animations and interactive games with it. Now we have Electron apps and other JS abominations doing much, much worse.
- Marazan 4y agoThe AVM was not resource hungry. It was the bad SWFs that ran on it which were resource hungry. Guess what? It is now bad Javascript code that is resource hungry.