adobe stock drops 20%

[drebo]

Flash is dying and nobody needs a $1500/8GB suite of software just for Photoshop and Illustrator, the only two Adobe products worth a damn these days.

Disagree. Dreamweaver and ColdFusion are fantastic products.

 

[Sumguy]

 

[Malak]

Here's me view the page on a Celeron 520 (merom). It's basically a 1.6ghz mobile version of the Core 2 (Conroe).

Chrome does the exact same as Opera. The page does not work in IE9, so I don't know how you tested that.

I'm not sure what version of Opera you are using, but I have the latest and no where near as high of CPU use as you.

 

[ShawnD1]

I'm not sure what version of Opera you are using, but I have the latest and no where near as high of CPU use as you.

Opera version is 10.61
Firefox version is 3.6.10

It runs at 12% on my i7 860 in FF 3.6.10.

Is that with hyperthreading on or off? If it's on and Windows sees 8 cores, a fully loaded logical core would be 12.5% in Task manager. With only 4 cores, a fully loaded core would be 25%. So using your i7 860, which is one of the best processors on the market today, a simple gradient program runs either 50% or 100% of a single core. What the fuck. Seriously. How is this program so painfully inefficient? It's doing graphical effects we did 10 years ago using a Pentium 2.


Let's try something else. Let's try this one more time on a 3.6ghz Phenom X6 1055. Opera first.

16% * 6 cores / 100 = 96% load on a single core. Fail.

Maybe Opera is horrible. Let's try Firefox.

16% * 6 / 100 = 96% load on a single core. Fail again.


Alright let's contrast that with how much processing power it takes to run a full 1080p flash video. Here's the 1080p trailer of Batman in Flash (try it yourself. Remember to change the video to 1080p in the bottom right corner of the player)

13% * 6 / 100 = 78% of a single core.

So there you have it. Running the most basic html5 demo in the world takes more CPU power than playing a 1080p flash video.

 

[mjrpes3]

Or maybe html5 hasn't be optimized to fill a 1080p screen with a gradient at 60fps. Hardly the end of the world.

 

[foghorn67]

I don't know. I love Adobe and hate them at the same time. Reader sucks.
Flash is a necessary evil until HTML 5 is mature enough.
But I love Lightroom and Photoshop. The CS5 version is amazing, and there isn't all that much competition.
PS and LR aren't perfect, but I love using them on a daily basis.