Flash 8 17 Nov 2006 04:55 pm
Mac OS 10.4.8 boosts Flash Professional 8 performance by 10%
John Nack recently commented that Photoshop CS2 runs around 35% faster on Intel-based Macs (or “MacTels” as we like to call them) running the recent 10.4.8 update from Apple. Apparently Apple made some optimizations to the Rosetta emulation layer that make non-Intel native apps run faster/better.
Out of curiosity, I asked on of our Quality Engineers if he could do some testing to see if there were any improvements to Flash Professional 8 running on a MacTel machine.
He found that startup time remained mostly the same but publishing time was sped up by 10% when comparing 10.4.7 to 10.4.8.
So there ya have it. Flash 8 is 10% faster on MacTel machines now. Just imagine how much faster it will be when we release the Universal Binary version in our next release!
on 18 Nov 2006 at 5:55 am 1.Savvas said …
Hi Mike.My main machine is a 1,5GHz PowerBook but i had a MacBook Pro(not the Core 2 Duo and with 10.4.7) to play with the Flash IDE for a full day and the resurls was amazing..I start to think that there is not need to wait tha UB flash IDE in order to buy the MacBoook Pro..The flashy baby rocks even under emulation!
on 30 Oct 2007 at 6:24 am 2.Professional Engineer said …
Hi…Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts..what a nice Tuesday