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The Adobe Flash Player is mainly optimized for the Windows 32 bit platform.
There is a 32 bit version for Mac OS X; under Linux, version 7 and version 9 are
both available. Adobe has been criticized for neglecting to optimize its
products on non-Microsoft platforms. This has led to poor web surfing
performance on Macintosh and Linux computers, since many websites use Flash
animations for menus and advertisements.
Adobe has rewritten the bitmap drawing routines in Flash Player 8 for Mac, using
OpenGL planes via Quartz to draw the surfaces. The new drawing code is reported
to be actually faster than its Windows counterpart, where JPEG, TIFF or other
bitmap images are composited into the animation.
Flash Player 7 for Linux had poor sound support (the sound could lag about a
second behind the picture); this issue is reportedly resolved in Flash Player 9.
Flash Player 8 was never released for Linux, Adobe stating they would skip that
version and instead focus on preparing Flash Player 9. This decision led to
disappointment in the Linux community, with some people feeling that Adobe had
abandoned the Linux market. Flash Player 9 for Linux was released in January
2007, providing platform parity once again. Adobe have not yet released any of
their development software for any UNIX-like operating system except Mac OS X.
Although Windows, Linux and Mac have extensive 64 bit support, Adobe has yet (as
of October 2006) to release a Flash Player for the x86-64 architecture on any
operating system. There were some reports from Adobe employees who said the
Flash implementation is very 32bit specific and porting to 64bit systems would
require a lot of effort. They also said that Adobe wish to release a 64bit
version as their market turns to 64bit.
To date there is no Linux Flash Player available for non x86 compatible
processors (e.g. x86-64 native, PowerPC, ARM, etc).
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