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Adobe could fix almost all of this by open sourcing the Flash Player. http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Projects http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/

• hyperbolist 17y ago
  http://daringfireball.net/2010/02/winer_flash_open_standards http://daringfireball.net/2010/02/winer_flash_open_standards quote: But what if the source code to Flash Player is — as many would wager — a huge steaming pile of convoluted C++ horseshit? It’s sort of like what if Microsoft open-sourced the Internet Explorer rendering engine. It’s not like anyone who is now using WebKit or Gecko would switch to that just because it was opened — or that WebKit, Mozilla, and Opera would suddenly be obligated to or even interested in adopting IE-specific web features.
  • wglb 17y ago
    And according to a blog of one of the flash development team working on moving it to 64 bits, there is also a lot of asm there.