I sure hope this is actually true. I'm not optimistic, though; I seem to remember just about every previous version being claimed to be "more optimized" which has added up to exactly nothing noticeable. More importantly, v9 has been so painfully slow on my machine that I'd even tried the previous v10 beta, but it wasn't at ALL better, possibly even worse. Maybe just debugging code, or maybe this latest beta has more optimizations, but I've given up hope of Adobe ever giving half a crap about speed or reasonable resource use.
Wouldn't be quite so bad if it weren't for all the friggin' flash ads out there.
Is this still true or has Adobe closed the Mac/PC gap in speed?
Still painfully true.
...pretty much everything that Adobe creates nowadays apart from the Photoshop family is craptastically slow and bloated.
Wait, Photoshop and friends aren't craptastically slow and bloated?
Ok, maybe not
craptastically so, but given that Photoshop won't even handle simple operations on a moderate sized image smoothly without well over a gig of RAM and several gigs of scratch drive space, I don't think it qualifies as even reasonably efficient by most standards.
Speed not good enough? Throw more hardware at it! That seems to be Adobe's solution to everything.
Also, have you ever tried downloading Adobe's Flash uninstaller? It's a
40 MB disk image. For the
uninstaller. The hilarious part? The disk image contains a 608KB uninstall application and 38 MB of... blank space. Seriously--try it.
[Edit: Aww, they apparently fixed it in the latest uninstaller release. Now it's a 1.3MB disk image with a 608K app on it, and another 600K of empty space. Still ridiculous.]
