Benchmarking Flash Player 10
The web collectively got a bit shinier this week with Adobe's release of Flash Player 10. The new version offers designers a compelling set of new features including support for rich 3D visual effects, a new antialiasing engine, an improved drawing API, support for color management, and enhanced support for streaming audio and video content. With this release, Adobe is clearly taking steps to ensure that Flash stays ahead of the curve and won't lose traction in the face of competitive pressure from Silverlight.
To get some relatively useful numbers and real web experience with the new Flash player, we decided to compare how well the last Flash 9 release for Mac OS X and Linux performed against version 10 on a number of sites. The most significant of these sites is GUIMark, a benchmark that puts various web-based technologies like Flash and Silverlight through their paces, all while providing frame rate averages for the duration of the test. What follows are our results from GUIMarks, our CPU records, and a discussion of the relevant changes in Flash for Mac OS X and Linux; combined, this should provide a clearer picture of whether Flash 10 actually provides significant performance improvements.
Linux
Flash is widely reviled by Linux users, who almost universally disdain its proprietary licensing model, lousy performance, excessive resource consumption, poor platform integration, and abysmal lack of stability. Flash is listed by Mozilla's crash reporting system as the number one cause of Firefox crashes on Linux.
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