01-28-2010, 05:51 AM
This isn't hard. Have you ever used Flash on the Mac? Or Linux? Or even Windows? It is not well optimized. Only recently has Adobe even started working on optimizing Flash for any platform. Hardware acceleration on Windows only (when it comes to h.264) arrived with Flash 10.1. Some hardware acceleration on other platforms started arriving in early/mid 2009 with Flash 10. I think that's the timeframe anyway. Hard to edit on the iPod touch so bear with me.
The Flash plugin on the Mac is still 32bit. Barring other technical reasons, if Apple wanted Flash (the only third party browser plugin that ships with OS X) to work with 64bit Safari on Snow Leopard, they had to create a system that ran plugins as a separate process. When will Flash become 64bit on the Mac? Who knows? Apple has to wait for Adobe. What company in their right mind would cede control of content distribution to a lazy (incompetent?) third party developer?
Nathan
The Flash plugin on the Mac is still 32bit. Barring other technical reasons, if Apple wanted Flash (the only third party browser plugin that ships with OS X) to work with 64bit Safari on Snow Leopard, they had to create a system that ran plugins as a separate process. When will Flash become 64bit on the Mac? Who knows? Apple has to wait for Adobe. What company in their right mind would cede control of content distribution to a lazy (incompetent?) third party developer?
Nathan