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Exactly. The article says that Flash isn't inherently slow. Is anything inherently slow if you take time to optimize it? Why has Adobe/Macromedia taken so long to get decent performance out of Flash?

I'd say the ball is in Adobe's court to actually make a version of Flash that doesn't suck on the existing platforms.

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Because its easier, in a cross platform sense, to code to one device: the cpu. Graphics libraries, GPUs, and drivers are more different and thus require more knowledge, experience, debugging, etc.

The performance of flash is good enough for Adobe. It's not good enough for apple and, well, some of us. Steve Jobs called them lazy, precisely because they don't make more effort in this department.

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