Yet again Tinic Uro (Principle engineer for Flash Player) has posted a great article about Flash Player. Apparently Flash Player 8 doesn’t just appear faster on my Mac, it is faster. It seems that the latest and greatest version of Flash Player uses OpenGL in OSX (10.2 and above) the display content. Of course older Macs that don’t support OpenGL rendering mode will not see a jump in performance, but Macromedia would love if you still tried out the new Flash Player on your Mac and told them if and how it kills it. Once Apple users and Mac heads are done rejoicing over the speed increase they should go read Uro latest at the link.
