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Re:Adobe: HTML5 Will Throw the Web 'Back to the Dark Ages of... by hyperbolist on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @09:42PM (#1096922)
http://daringfireball.net/2010/02/winer_flash_open_standards

quote: But what if the source code to Flash Player is — as many would wager — a huge steaming pile of convoluted C++ horseshit? It’s sort of like what if Microsoft open-sourced the Internet Explorer rendering engine. It’s not like anyone who is now using WebKit or Gecko would switch to that just because it was opened — or that WebKit, Mozilla, and Opera would suddenly be obligated to or even interested in adopting IE-specific web features.

Re:Adobe: HTML5 Will Throw the Web 'Back to the Dark Ages of... by wglb on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @07:42AM (#1097605)
And according to a blog of one of the flash development team working on moving it to 64 bits, there is also a lot of asm there.