Adobe Flash Player : MultiThreading

These days I am recontemplating on my vision for a multithreaded AVM instance.

Jim Corbett said multithreading wasn’t being built into the ActionScript Virtual Machine, however, looking ahead into the inner workings of Flash Player 10, processing for the new bitmap filters using the programming language Hydra would be using multithreading! What’s more is that you don’t need to focus on manipulating DisplayObject items with Hydra, but are able to send it plain math equations as well, which it will be able to crunch blazingly fast, thanks to multithreading! So any math heavy Flash applications will get a HUGE performance boost, not to mention the various 3D engines and physics engines.

Adobe Flash Player : Codenames

On a funny sidenote... :)

While the Adobe code-name for Flash Player 10 is “Astro”, the Flash Player team has their own code-name for it… Bacon! That’s the name that the team voted for, they didn’t get that name, but still refer to it internally as Bacon. Flash Player 9 Update 3 was code-named Moviestar, but once again the internal Flash Player team referred to as Frogstar.

Archived Adobe Flash Player Installers

When I was testing my theory regarding the AXIS cameras and the lack of a crossdomain file being the only obstacle to using the SWF stream, I needed the Flash Player 7 installer and I found this list in the Adobe KnowledgeBase:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266

It contains a download link to all players since Flash Player 2... for some reason they don't have an installer for Flash Player 1... please feel free to comment if you know of an explicit reason for this :-)

On a side-note, its interesting to see the peculiar growth in file-size.