Flash Player 9 Updates
Well it seems like Adobe pushes even more (2D-)hardware rendering into the Flash Platform. Not yet the 3D hardware acceleration everybody is holding their breath for - but seems like it’s just a question of time until they’ll add it. Macromedia had it already in place in Shockwave/Director years ago but sadly that platform never gained much ground in the web.
The most exciting new features of the update:
- Faster rendering of vector graphics on multi-core CPUs
- Hardware-scaling in fullscreen mode for improved video performance and quality in scaling
Release notes in Adobe’s labs here.
Update:
An even more detailed list about the new features can be found in a blog post by Tinic Uro here. Looks like the video decoding runs in a seperated thread too if the machine hosts 2 or more cores. Damn, now that’s pretty nice!