Flash tests

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 30.09.2008 um 11:13 schrieb John Watlington:

>
> On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>
>> wrote:
>>> The video in "Hulk Central Smashdown" shows only two
>>> frames, and the game is unplayable due to slowness in
>>> rendering.
>>
>> I don't think we should expect games like "Hulk Central Smashdown" to
>> become playable at any time soon.
>
> Personally, I agree, but LATU disagrees.
> Their report indicates that this video plays on Intel Classmates
> (but only under Fedora, not Windows!) and there shouldn't be
> such a gulf in performance.   Flash is detecting and using
> hardware assist on the Classmate, but isn't happy with what
> it finds on the XO.


The Classmate has a significantly faster CPU and a lot less pixels  
than the XO. Which makes it more power-hungry and less crisp, but  
better for games.

Still, the XO performance might be tuned - did someone get a couple of  
dev machines to the Adobe Linux hackers?

- Bert -