On 6th of May 2010 courtesy of RocketBoots, Manoj Vekaria and I presented at WebDU regarding the performance of various Rich Internet Application(RIA) platforms available to developers today. In essence, we compared the performance of old technologies(Java applets, Action Script 2), current technologies(Action Script 3, Silverlight) and upcoming technologies(WebGL) and many more in how well they handled the rendering of 3D particles onto a 2D surface. To run the simulations for yourself and try checking out the source code from the RocketBoots Subversion Repository:

http://svn.rocketboots.com/os/webdu2010_need_for_speed/

You can also view the presentation and the Google Wave:

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and the Wave…