Comments on: Yeti Gore Flash game http://eseth.org/2004/yeti-gore Making close friends suffer through crappy writing since aught-one. Wed, 21 May 2008 19:15:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Esoteric Rubbish » Blog Archive » Firefox and boxen-hopping http://eseth.org/2004/yeti-gore#comment-3148 Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:55:13 +0000 http://eseth.org/2004/yeti-gore#comment-3148 <p>[...] Unfortunately this extension is a must on the Macintosh otherwise Flash-heavy sites can make your computer completely unusable. This extension lets you start Flash animations selectively. Again, this extension deserves exception since it is hardly Mozilla&#8217;s fault that the OS X Flash player sucks . [...]</p> […] Unfortunately this extension is a must on the Macintosh otherwise Flash-heavy sites can make your computer completely unusable. This extension lets you start Flash animations selectively. Again, this extension deserves exception since it is hardly Mozilla’s fault that the OS X Flash player sucks . […]

]]> by: Seth http://eseth.org/2004/yeti-gore#comment-21 Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:44:05 +0000 http://eseth.org/2004/yeti-gore#comment-21 <p>Thanks for the comment, John. I haven't been around for long, at least not on the Mac. Most of the 100% CPU problem I find is on game related sites, so I can see the advertisers wanting those ads to look great and cranking up the FPS.</p> <p>In the event you check back here, could you lend any advice to the Linux problem? Obviously sound on Linux still needs a little work (even the newer ALSA), but would it help if I had better sound hardware, something that could do hardware mixing for instance?</p> Thanks for the comment, John. I haven’t been around for long, at least not on the Mac. Most of the 100% CPU problem I find is on game related sites, so I can see the advertisers wanting those ads to look great and cranking up the FPS.

In the event you check back here, could you lend any advice to the Linux problem? Obviously sound on Linux still needs a little work (even the newer ALSA), but would it help if I had better sound hardware, something that could do hardware mixing for instance?

]]> by: John Dowdell http://eseth.org/2004/yeti-gore#comment-20 Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:39:55 +0000 http://eseth.org/2004/yeti-gore#comment-20 <p>If you've been around, then you'll remember that each recent generation of the Macromedia Flash Player has had extra Mac-specific engineering done for performance optimization. One of the big gates, though, is the way that processor cycles are distributed among guest processes in browsers... you can often see big differences between standalone playback and in-browser playback. It's still an ongoing goal, but there are major roadblocks in the way.</p> <p>If you're seeing 100% CPU utilization with ad-heavy pages, then from what I've seen this is most frequently caused by designers who choose excessively high framerates. Disney worked well with 12fps... requesting more frames-per-second than the hardware can deliver is a sure way to choke off the machine's overall interactivity. </p> <p>For Linux it's different -- here the top request seems to be "create engines which run on more Linux flavors, in more browser configurations". Of course, there are many requests for authoring tools too, but I haven't seen recent analysis on how much money this might actually return... Codeweavers is the best bet here now.</p> <p>Regards, John Dowdell Macromedia Support</p> If you’ve been around, then you’ll remember that each recent generation of the Macromedia Flash Player has had extra Mac-specific engineering done for performance optimization. One of the big gates, though, is the way that processor cycles are distributed among guest processes in browsers… you can often see big differences between standalone playback and in-browser playback. It’s still an ongoing goal, but there are major roadblocks in the way.

If you’re seeing 100% CPU utilization with ad-heavy pages, then from what I’ve seen this is most frequently caused by designers who choose excessively high framerates. Disney worked well with 12fps… requesting more frames-per-second than the hardware can deliver is a sure way to choke off the machine’s overall interactivity.

For Linux it’s different — here the top request seems to be “create engines which run on more Linux flavors, in more browser configurations”. Of course, there are many requests for authoring tools too, but I haven’t seen recent analysis on how much money this might actually return… Codeweavers is the best bet here now.

Regards, John Dowdell Macromedia Support

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