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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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