> Flash has always been sluggish on OSX, but the beta of Flash 10 promises to be faster, according to one of the developers blogs:

> <quote>If you have followed GUIMark at all you will notice that this version of the player runs this benchmark substantially better on OSX than any previous Flash Player version. It should be up to 3 times faster. How will this affect you? Well, OSX device text rendering got a huge performance boost. If you use lots of device text you will see a big difference.</quote>

> http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/07/adobe-flash-player-10-pre-release.html

"Sandman" <m...@sandman.net> wrote in message

> Flash has always been sluggish on OSX

<thorn...@juno.com> wrote:
> > Sandman:
> > Flash has always been sluggish on OSX
> Edwin:
> Thanks for the information.

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:50:52 -0400, MuahMan wrote:
> On Jul 5, 3:05 am, Sandman <m...@sandman.net> wrote:
>> Flash has always been sluggish on OSX, but the beta of Flash 10 promises
>> to be faster, according to one of the developers blogs:

>> <quote>If you have followed GUIMark at all you will notice that this
>> version of the player runs this benchmark substantially better on OSX
>> than any previous Flash Player version. It should be up to 3 times
>> faster. How will this affect you? Well, OSX device text rendering got a
>> huge performance boost. If you use lots of device text you will see a big
>> difference.</quote>

>> http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/07/adobe-flash-player-10-pre-release.html

> Congratulations to the Mactards. I'm glad you're finally getting a working
> copy of Flash. I've had that since what? 1990?

"Tim Murray" <no-s...@thankyou.com> wrote in message

> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:50:52 -0400, MuahMan wrote:
>> On Jul 5, 3:05 am, Sandman <m...@sandman.net> wrote:
>>> Flash has always been sluggish on OSX, but the beta of Flash 10 promises
>>> to be faster, according to one of the developers blogs:

>>> <quote>If you have followed GUIMark at all you will notice that this
>>> version of the player runs this benchmark substantially better on OSX
>>> than any previous Flash Player version. It should be up to 3 times
>>> faster. How will this affect you? Well, OSX device text rendering got a
>>> huge performance boost. If you use lots of device text you will see a
>>> big
>>> difference.</quote>

>>> http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/07/adobe-flash-player-10-pre-release.html

>> Congratulations to the Mactards. I'm glad you're finally getting a
>> working
>> copy of Flash. I've had that since what? 1990?

> Flash 1 was released in 1996.