n0g0013 wrote:

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> i'm sure SUN was/is hoping that someone will develop a java based

 > animation toolkit to compete with flash but that's yet to happen.

I think this is what JavaFX is aiming to be - unfortunately, it's

probably missed the boat, what with Flash having been around for years

and Microsoft having released Silverlight.
One of the reasons Flash on Windows is so fast is that it is

JIT-compiled to native code, plus it probably takes advantage of

accelerated graphics rendering where it can. Neither of these seem to

happen with the Linux flash plugin from Adobe (or if they do, it doesn't

help - it's still dog slow).
I think that was one of the things holding Adobe back from releasing an

amd64 version of Flash (even for Windows!) - they didn't seem to be

capable of porting their JIT compiler!
The bug reference for that is here:
	https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-37
Looks like the JIT was released under the MPL/GPL/LGPL in 2006:
	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/
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Russell Howe

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