Do Adobe Air apps support multicore processing?

Question

Do Adobe apps support multiple cores or do they still use single core?

So will it make a difference in speed (in performance of the application) if I'm using a Pentium 4 processor (3 ghz) v/s a Dual Core Processor (2.7 ghz)

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Edit: As mentioned by AndrejaKo in his comment below, I have already asked this question on SuperUser but I was hoping that some Air developers here would have more information regarding this question.

Answer 1

I'm not an Air developer, but all the documentation I was able to find indicates that, no, Air does not currently support true concurrency... though they're considering the ups and downs of leaving Web Workers in their borrowed copy of WebKit for a future release.

• Is multi-threading possible in Flash or ActionScript?
• WebKit features not supported in Air 1.x
• Adobe AIR 2 Beta Now Available: "Does that mean we can use web workers in Air?"

I think that last one covers the version of AIR you're asking about.

Answer 2

Adobe does not provide any ActionScript or JavaScript APIs for working with threads. So, everything written in one of those languages will definitely be executed single-threaded.