Yes, the player already uses some concurrency, but it doesn't make it available to ActionScript developers yet.
- Gordon -----Original Message----- From: David Francis Buhler [mailto:davidbuh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 12:43 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: will ever adobe give the flashplayer to the opensource comunity I believe some multi-threading does exist now: "Multi-threaded video decoding (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) -- The video decoding pipeline is now fully multi-threaded. This feature should improve the overall performance on all platforms. Note that this feature is a significant architecture change required for other future improvements." via: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11-2/ On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Gordon Smith <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: > I'm not really sure but I presume concurrency is important for various gaming > uses cases. As you know, Adobe's new focus for Flash Player is on gaming and > high-end video and if a new feature doesn't further this new strategy, it is > less likely to happen. > > - Gordon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joan Llenas Masó [mailto:joan.llenas.m...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 10:47 AM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: will ever adobe give the flashplayer to the opensource > comunity > > Hi Gordon, > From my ignorance in this field... I'm cuorious about what use cases will > this concurrency model be solving. > Number crunching is one of them for sure, as there's no need to share memory, > but do you have anything more "Flash Player oriented" in mind? > > Cheers! > > > > -- > Joan Llenas Masó > http://joan.garnet.io > @joangarnet (es) > @joanllenas (en) > > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 19:31, Gordon Smith <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> Yes, concurrency is coming ASAP. >> >> Gordon Smith, Adobe >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jarosław Szczepankiewicz [mailto:jszczepankiew...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 11:46 PM >> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: will ever adobe give the flashplayer to the opensource >> comunity >> >> it will materialize for sure (the question is when) if they want to >> "invest in gaming", currently even low end machines have at least two >> physical cores. But I am afraid that the api given to the user will >> be not comparable to what we call worker i.e. in java. I speculate >> but in order to not complicate AVM internal synchronization they >> probably will use workers in form something of swfloader (from flex). >> Separate swf with passed variables (by values), without access to >> some shared memory (stage, display list, arrays etc.), returning some >> new objects?. Something more comparable to modern languages with >> multhtreading will complicate the internals of AVM, and adobe can not >> afford making the AVM not backward compatible at this moment. But that only >> my speculations. >> >> 2012/2/6 Nicholas Kwiatkowski <nicho...@spoon.as>: >> > Multithreading (actually, it is a psudo-thread using child workers) >> > was talked about publicly at MAX a few months ago. They have not >> > committed to anything, but they did state that they have it on >> > their >> current roadmap. >> > To us, that means that we may see it in a future release of the FP >> > (hopefully sooner than later), but it may never materialize. >> > >> > -Nick >> > >> > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Stephane Beladaci < >> > adobeflexengin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Agreed, I do not believe we need Flash Player to be opened source >> >> to do great stuff with Apache Flex, as I think you mentioned >> >> before Alex the cost for Flex is now 0 since the community will be >> >> developing so even with the Flash Player as it is we should be >> >> able to keep pushing Flex further than Adobe did since there is no >> >> commercial agenda anymore. Adobe will probably also improved the >> >> Flash Player as part of their own agenda and use, is multi >> >> threading still on the map for >> this year? >> >> >> >> > On 2/4/12 5:24 PM, "Stephane Beladaci" >> >> > <adobeflexengin...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > OK, that's enough speculation for now. Let's move on. I will >> >> > probably >> >> ask >> >> > my management chain every year on the anniversary of Apache >> >> > Flex's acceptance into the incubator if this is the year we will >> >> > open source >> it. >> >> > Last time I asked, the answer was not "never". >> >> > >> >> > But for now, this podling has to assume there won't be any >> >> > improvements >> >> in >> >> > the flash player and make the best of what we have now. And I >> >> > am still convinced that what we have now is capable of really >> >> > impressive >> stuff. >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Alex Harui >> >> > Flex SDK Team >> >> > Adobe Systems, Inc. >> >> > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >> >> > >> >> >>
