And still, the other (rendering) benchmarks where Flash generally leads got no comments and no upvotes.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649759" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649759</a><p>Seriously Hacker News.
The irony of it is that Adobe took AS2 (wich was ECMAScript) and turned it into a Javesque language. Not only javascript has blossomed, but performance was always coupled to the static nature of AS3.<p>In short: they moved the language to the opposite direction of where most people are going, and also ended up with a slower statically typed language.
I think the site is down.
Google text only cache here:<p><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Np7ljkBgJloJ:iq12.com/blog/as3-benchmark/+iq12.com+benchmark&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Np7ljkB...</a><p>Update (chart):
<a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/819/chartb.jpg/" rel="nofollow">http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/819/chartb.jpg/</a><p>Best i could do from online caches, hope this site comes back cause I'd like to see a bigger chart.