Flash Is Hungry
Let's run this down: The world is going mobile. There's no doubt that more and more of our computing lives happen on handheld devices. Those handheld devices are getting smaller. It won't be long before you can use the edge of a smart phone to take care of unwanted body hair. And with the thinner devices comes a smaller set of batteries.
Because Flash is an interpreted language, it's heavy -- so heavy that, in conjunction with the way Flash renders video, it's an absolute battery killer.
And it's not just a battery killer on mobile devices. Want to see how quickly the battery on your laptop can run to zero? Load your browser with a bunch of Flash-heavy pages in tabs and let them all run. You can hear the giant electronic sucking sound as the battery winds toward zero.
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