ShoppingOct 20, 2008
Not so Flash, Flash still sloow like molase on Mac
A new series of benchmarks from Arstechnica.com applied to the new Flash Player 10 on Mac and Windows show that while Adobe claims that Flash on Macs is up to the Windows version, there is a large gap in performance that puts in disadvantage the Macintosh.
Flash Player performance has been the Achille’s Heel for Adobe and we all expect a final solution to this problem in the most recent version, but this won’t be possible in this upgrade, Adobe hasn’t taken the mac platform seriously in recent years and is turning all its resources to Windows trying to block Microsoft’s Silverlight advancement in Flash territory.
Check the benchmarks at Arstechnica.com
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6 Comments, Comment or Ping
James Katt
Flash is 10 TIMES SLOWER on Mac than on Windows.
This is a DISGUSTING difference in performance.
Adobe DOES NOT CARE about Apple or Mac.
This is PROOF.
If it ever wants Flash on iPhone, it has to IMPROVE Flash on Mac performance FIRST. The Mac and iPhone run the same core OS.
Oct 20th, 2008
Paul Greatbatch
All this is just good news for Quicktime.
Oct 20th, 2008
Ryan
I don't want Flash to run faster on my Mac, I just don't want Flash to run at all. Besides Youtube, what are the other applications of Flash? Those big annoying ads?
Oct 20th, 2008
Snafu
Unless the problem lies in OS X' APIs, actually. It wouldn't be the first time.
Oct 20th, 2008
desinformado
I really don't believe it is a OS X API problem, if so, you bet that Adobe will be screaming out loud that this is an Apple problem, maybe Adobe is punishing Apple because of Final Cut and Aperture….
Oct 20th, 2008
Snafu
Actually, people at Adobe explained that they found some bottlenecks in OS X' APIs. It is just that they don't usually “scream out loud” such things
. See http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081017-b...
“…As we've reported before, though, Adobe's engineers have discovered a bottleneck in Flash's text rendering. The GUIMark benchmark should be very sensitive to this because it spends more than half of its time testing a single Mac OS X text function: ATSUGetUnjustifiedBounds. As you'll see from our Mac OS X results below, performance has definitely improved in many respects on Mac OS X, though some Arsians suspect that other problems may still exist with Mac OS X's NSPlugin API…”
Oct 21st, 2008
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