Flash Player 7.0beta

[Fat Tony]

Finally, the Flash Player is gaining noticable speed to the Windows counterpart.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/public_beta/release_notes/

Download:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11622

[AppleMatt]

I got a benchmark of 44 when using 6r79, I'll edit this post with version 7 results.

edit: 60. Not bad, not bad at all. Macromedia claim a 15%-70% increase depending on the SWF file. They also said speed was of upmost importance in this release. Hopefully it will only get better!

AppleMatt

[Megaquad]

29 before and 38 score with beta 7 (BenchMX (http://www.lcarsplanet.com/benchmx))
I wonder if PC's get speed gains too?

[Nermal]

Well, you both did better than me. 39 -> 46 on my 800 MHz iBook.

[powerbookje]

75 with my 12" powerbook, before 53

[iGav]

99 in Safari on my 1GHz Ti
83 in IE

can't remember what they were before with 6....

[Mr. Anderson]

I went from 83 to 88 on my dual 1.25.....

I'll see what happens on my 450 MHz G4 at home later...:D

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[powerbookje]

The 1 ghz TiBook is faster than the dual 1.25?

[iGav]

Originally posted by powerbookje
The 1 ghz TiBook is faster than the dual 1.25?

You made me check again....:eek:

Okay then test 2...,

I consistantly get 97-98 in Safari, and peaked at 99 when I restared my machine without my second monitor attached, and disabled Suitcase to open at startup....

IE doesn't get near... heh-heh!

As for the Dual 1.25, it whoops my a$$ when it comes to realtime work.... I don't really read into the above performance figures, there are many factors at work which can affect this performance...

I want to see what the G5's knock out :D

[powerbookje]

maybe flash isn't dual processor aware?
That's the only explanation I can think off...

[Mr. Anderson]

It also might be party the video card and bus involved here. Regardless, its high enough for me that it works. :D

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[powerbookje]

rebooted and processor speed highest: 83
(12"PB)

[iGav]

Originally posted by powerbookje
maybe flash isn't dual processor aware?
That's the only explanation I can think off...

or it could be that my TiBook only has a 15" screen, so I use less graphics power on the screen... and more towards processing...??

or could it be that I only did a complete erase and re-install a week ago, so I've got less background ***** slowing me down??

could be many other things as well....

if you put that Dual 1.25 next to mine, and render a 80 layer AE comp, mine wouldn't get anywhere near it... ;)

[F/reW/re]

On my PC with alot of programs running I got 131 still using FlashPlayer 6.
I guess internet will never be the same on a Mac as it is on a PC.

amd 1800+
GeForce 3 Ti 64
512 RAM

[Mr. Anderson]

Got a 41 on my G4 450 at home with a Radeon 8500 card installed. Not too bad and it is an improvement...:D

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[AppleMatt]

Remember guys this is a beta, hopefully things will improve even more by final.

Do the test 5 times and take the average of the last 3 results. Also don't have any other apps running and don't obscure the window while the test is running, that's the only way to get a fair test.

See how I've sucked all the fun out of this thread :D

AppleMatt

[jbomber]

Originally posted by AppleMatt
Remember guys this is a beta, hopefully things will improve even more by final.

Do the test 5 times and take the average of the last 3 results. Also don't have any other apps running and don't obscure the window while the test is running, that's the only way to get a fair test.

See how I've sucked all the fun out of this thread :D

AppleMatt

I've got a friend there. Maybe it's time to give her a little kick in the ass about this.:) Granted, she wasn't too happy the last time i brought it up..... (rubs scar on arm)