I used to hate Flash with a passion. It’s only taken them a decade to get the performance right on the Mac. Not to mention that little news blurb about discontinuation on mobile devices such as Android phones and iPhone..

Build 11.2.202.96, or 11.2 Beta 2 has made leaps and bounds over previous versions.

“Multithreaded Video Decoding (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)* – This release introduces a new fully multithreaded video decoding pipeline which resolves a number of legacy playback issues. This modern architecture will also enable future performance enhancements across all platforms.”

I am only on a dual core system without hyper threading, but I have noticed CPU usage is down significantly. I can stream 1080p video using my Geforce 9400m graphics card using ~50% cpu. Before it would take almost 100%. 480p video playback is down to 30%. This will hopefully be release candidate by the end of the year. We need it.