flash and hardware acceleration
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- bry
so i never understood why flash, as far as i can tell, relies only on the CPU for performance, and doesn't seem to muscle any horsepower from a 3d accelerator card or the like if one's available.
can somebody tell me the main reasons? there's so much untapped potential NOT being used there that it gives me ball-aches out of frustration.
- fate0
well it does use RAM, but it probably has to do with the level of access to resources it has, since it is IN A BROWSER WINDOW! Duh!
The new Flash8 player is prolly gonna make a better link between the installed flash files, graphic acceleration, and final output in the browser windows though. I mean have you seen the demo videos? Amazing.
- bry0
hmm, i guess that makes sense. still though, a flash plugin taking advantage of a high-end vid card would so totally slickify performance that much more.
where are these flash 8 demo videos? i'd like to see.
- fate0
here are several links:
- shaft0
There used to be a non-macromedia plugin for nvidia equipped pc's, i guess in the old flash 5 days. It was much faster.
- ********0
fate is smart
- ozhanlion0
how do u keep your plugin size minimum if you want that kind of stuff ?
see director for details.
but yes 8ball will kick ass.
- fate0
- unfittoprint0
the way you script has great influence in system resources. According to Mooks' AS2.0, referering your code into objects [OOP] will automatically make part of the code acessible from faster areas of your memory card.
- enjine0
unfitt, i must have missed that in the book, do you remember which page or chapter it's in?
- unfittoprint0
there's a very small paragraph referencing it in the beginning. There also other hints regarding how one should clean unused instances/classes when no longer necessary for better usage of the user system resources.
- jkosoy0
Does the book have any reference as to delete vs. null?
I assume delete is better overall for the processor (though I use null out of habit) and would love to hear that someone has something concrete on that...
- ozhanlion0
use delete :)
- unfittoprint0
delete dat biatch.
- ********0
I'm not sure. I mean when I developed Flash based .exe's for Kiosk systems, they run ultra fast
- ********0