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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by fastball on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:34PM (#21243655)
Flash performance was always terrible on all platforms. It span up the CPU on my windows computer from the beginning and never stopped until its eventual demise.
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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by redisman on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:23PM (#21244551)
That's from bad programming practices. It was very easy to write a terrible inefficient program with it since it was so accessible. There was nothing inherent in Flash that used a lot of CPU. The VM was pretty light weight. It also had only a software renderer for most of its lifetime which would naturally struggle with lots of crazy overlapping effects.
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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by fastball on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:53PM (#21244673)
HTML5 video had significantly better performance in terms of CPU from the beginning, and I'm fairly certain the Flash video players weren't written by amateur programmers with bad programming practices.
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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by koonsolo on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:07AM (#21245846)
That is not performance, that is resource usage.

As a game developer who has programmed in ActionScript3, I can tell you that Flash was very performant for 2D graphics.

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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by fastball on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:27AM (#21247104)
Requiring all of my computer's resources in order to get good performance is bad performance.
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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by koonsolo on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:54PM (#21276325)
So basically any AAA game has bad performance.
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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era by fastball on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:20PM (#21308601)
There is a difference between "the most graphic intensive games available spin up my CPU" and "literally any game on flash spins up my CPU".
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