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[Will Hawkins <>]

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First of all, Jordan is awesome. Second, and as he said, he did that
work on adding platform detection for this very reason: we wanted to
prevent people from running the Flash client on platforms that we did
not think would provide accurate results.


More inline.

On 04/06/2015 03:59 PM, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Hey Jordan,
> 
>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Jordan McCarthy
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
> Completely agreed.  In fact, this was the very reason that we
> added environment-detection code to the flash client that (by
> default) completely prevents it from running on anything except
> the environments you mentioned, and shows a warning message
> explaining the problem:
> http://files.opentechinstitute.org/~mccarthy/flash-error.html.
> 
>> Ok, that information isn’t getting to the javascript client then.
>> Is there a nice way to call and check if it’s on a bad platform?

Jordan is definitely your point-person on this because he did the
implementation. IIRC, there is a JS callback exposed by the Flash
client that will detect a bad platform. He can weigh in definitively!

> 
> I am quite concerned about Jeremy's reports, however, because they
> do indeed point to yet another, hitherto unseen cause of
> performance disparities between Flash and everything else.  And it
> is true that there has clearly been considerable historical
> instability in the Flash runtime's treatment of socket I/O (as
> evidenced by the fact that the older versions of the runtime used
> by *NIX return such horrible numbers).
> 
>> Would it be possible for you to work with Jeremy to figure out
>> what’s going on? If we’re seeing poor results on the only known
>> good platform, that’s not a good sign…
> 

I will dig up the technical results of the analysis on where and when
Flash worked and failed. Beyond that, I'd be happy to help track down
these new issues but I cannot take the lead (due to time constraints
on my end). Other than that, I will do whatever I can to help!

Will

>> Cheers, Aaron
> 
> 
> Jordan
> 
> Jordan McCarthy Open Technology Institute @ New America Public Key:
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