Is Flash really faster? Or are Flash developers bad coders?

Someone made an animation in both HTML5 and Flash, in order to benchmark mobile devices such as iPhone and Android phones.

Google Nexus One performs better than iPhone in terms of HTML5. But that is because Android has JTI and iOS does not allow that for web pages. And the author claims Flash performs better and consumes less battery.

Well true for the HTML5 code he wrote.

Other people have quickly optimized his HTML5 codes to produce animations over twice as fast on my iPhone 3GS.
Exmaple One, Two, and Three.
Basically the original animation performs at 17fps on my iPhone 3GS, and the other three perform at 30-34fps, 40-42fps and 40-42fps respectively.

I do not recall Adobe doubling Flash performance very often for the past 5 years on both Mac and Linux.

The original author seems to be a bad coder, possible typical of all flash developers 🙂

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