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Re: [News] Flash for GNU/Linux Becomes Hardware-accelerated

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
> 
> First OpenGL in virtual machines and X forwarding... now Flash. Good for
> gaming, but it's still a proprietary layer.
> 

It won't be forever.

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