In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
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wrote
on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:16:10 +0100
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Flash Uses The GPU
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>>| A much clamored-for feature (right after native 64-bit,
>>| wmode/transparency, and V4L2) is Flash GPU (graphical
>>| processing unit) acceleration, sometimes founded in a
>>| belief that it's a magic solution for making things
>>| fast without any side effects or ill consequences. I
>>| just wanted to make it known that the Adobe Flash Player
>>| is GPU accelerated,
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>> http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/05/flash_uses_the_gpu.html
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>> First OpenGL in virtual machines and X forwarding... now Flash. Good for
>> gaming, but it's still a proprietary layer.
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> It won't be forever.
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http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
has a fair number of problems with Flash games, but hopefully
it will become more polished as time goes on.
I think it's kind of a neat idea, actually. ;-)
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