In May 2008 (about three years ago, since this publication), an engineer who worked on Flash Player 10 wrote a blog post about the layout of the GPU:
Just because Flash Player uses [GPU layout] doesn't mean it will be faster. In most cases, your content will become slower ... Content should be specifically designed to work well with GPU functionality. The software rasterizer in Flash Player can optimize many cases that the GPU cannot optimize, because the developer must know what the GPU is doing and adapt your content accordingly. I understand that this statement is useless if we cannot give guidance, which we hopefully achieve in the near future.
Does anyone know of any such guidance provided by Adobe in the next three years? The only relevant information I could find was in this article , which contains recommendations for optimizing hardware rendering, but not for hardware-accelerated layout, which is what the "gpu" wmode embed parameter is on for.
With the exception of testing individual pieces of content individually, how can I determine when my content will be useful when using GPU layout and when using GPU layout can be harmful?
Thanks in advance!
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