actionscript comes along, performance bumps up slightly every few years. all browsers start below actionscript, but over time they surpass it. Average performance of different js versions has climbed sharply over time, whilst performance of actionscript has increased only slightly
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I think there used to be some diagrams, so the text-only version might not be the whole picture. Unfortunately that's all we can get right now.
yes, a lot of the information was in the graphs
graph information, paraphrased from memory:
actionscript comes along, performance bumps up slightly every few years. all browsers start below actionscript, but over time they surpass it. Average performance of different js versions has climbed sharply over time, whilst performance of actionscript has increased only slightly