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Flash - Poorly optimized for OS X?

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desistyle

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What's up with Flash on Mac?

I have a Late 2007 Macbook, Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 Ghz and 4GB ram.

Some flash games run fine, but more intensive flash games run slower when Im in OS X.

If I bootcamp into windows, flash games run really well.

Is flash just poorly optimized for OS X? Why is it when I play a game my Safari CPU spikes to 90-100%?
 
I think it is poorly optimised for OS X. I posted a thread not long ago about the Safari memory leak issue, I was told it was due to Flash which makes Safari use this amount of RAM. It must be correct as when it was using around 500MB RAM, I was watching a flash video podcast on a technology website.
 
Trying running flash on a 1999 iMac 333 machine 🙂

Brutal...

Any flash apps make my Macbook fans go crazy.
 
I'm surprise that no one has come up with a true multi-platform alternative to Flash.

I just hope Flash Player 10 is built from the ground up and offers much better performance.
 
Tsurisuto said:
I'm surprise that no one has come up with a true multi-platform alternative to Flash.

I just hope Flash Player 10 is built from the ground up and offers much better performance.
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Well, Silverlight may take the top spot in coming years.
 
Tsurisuto said:
I just hope that they treat the Mac and PC versions equally when developing the plugin, and don't incorporate proprietary technologies like DirectX that then have to be converted (badly).
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I've had the OS X Silverlight plug-in installed for some time. 😉
 
James McColgan said:
I think it is poorly optimised for OS X. I posted a thread not long ago about the Safari memory leak issue, I was told it was due to Flash which makes Safari use this amount of RAM. It must be correct as when it was using around 500MB RAM, I was watching a flash video podcast on a technology website.
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I have similar experiences.

I actually think I dislike Adobe more than Microsoft.

SL
 
Eidorian said:
I know that Microsoft's Office 2008 site asked me to download Silverlight for a few of their presentations. It looks like it's using Flash now though. 🙄
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That's just small change. What they need is a platform that Linux, Mac and Windows users can develop on. At the moment you can only view Silverlight content on the Mac, not make content for it. For that you still need a PC (or Bootcamp).

And then secondly, they need a site that rivals YouTube (or xTube for people who like that sort of thing 🙂 ).
 
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