SWFdec vs Gnash (also gcjwebplugin)

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:01:25AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Francis Earl (francis.earl at gmail.com) said: 
> > Are there any technical reasons as to why Fedora seems to prefer SWFdec
> > over Gnash?
> 
> It works better would be the short answer. Having run both of
> them through a test suite (available at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestResults/Fedora9Swfdec/Rawhide),
> swfdec performed *much* better, not the least because it supports
> a larger subset of Flash 9.

Are the results for gnash somewhere? And for which version?

Anyway, I don't think this is very relevant, since both gnash and swfdec
are fast moving targets and the release pace and features prioritisation
makes benchmarking and projection of changes very uneasy.

--
Pat