Flash Player 9
Abode announced yesterday that Flash Player 8.5 Beta, very well known by Flex Developers and Beta testers, will be the official Flash 9.0. The features of this release include the ECMAScript Edition 4-based ActionScript 3.0 language and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2), which dramatically exceeds the performance of previous players.
The performance gains are massive... i.e. in a particular example, loading a large dataset in a flash grid took 20 seconds in Flash 7, 15 seconds in Flash 8, and less than 5 seconds in Flash 8.5, or 9 ...
The new authoring tool, code named Blaze, is still no where near the door... but it is expected the Flex 2.0 builder gets its final release by the end of the first half of the year... thus you should expect it sometime in June.
http://www.robgonda.com/blog/trackback.cfm?C3628677-3048-7431-E48CE638DB92C69E
Anyways, I'm sure Flash Player 9 will help, but I believe that the problem with Flash Forms is the Flex 1.0 engine components that CF is running. Hopefully the next major release will upgrade the engine and thus compile XMXL faster.
Me, personally, I stayed away from Flash Forms for now, and will use Flex 2 builder to add richness to my cf sites. SWFs will be precompiled, therefore there wont be server lags, and Flash 9 is optimized to run AS3.0 files, which will make those forms fly ... The only problem is that we're still looking at at least 1 year, or year and a half for decent Flash 9 market penetration ... making it only useful for intranets or environments that you fully control.
http://www.yaodownload.com/video_t/videoplayer/qui...