Multithreading in Flash 11.4?

Flash Player "Dolores"
Adobe is planning an additional Flash Player release in the second half of 2012. Code-named "Dolores", this release focuses on enabling features and functionality for the gaming market, as well as improvements for general Flash Player use cases.
Some of the features planned for this release include the following:
ActionScript workers (enables concurrent ActionScript execution on separate threads)
Support for advanced profiling
Support for more hardware-accelerated video cards (from 2005/2006) in order to expand availability of hardware accelerated content
Improved ActionScript performance when targeting Apple iOS
Performance index API to inform about performance capabilities of current environment
Release outside mouse event API
Wish it had come sooner, but that's pretty cool.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html

@mlang1066 - If you'd like to continue using Firefox, I'd recommend taking a look at the following FAQ for troubleshooting suggestions:
How do I troubleshoot Flash Player's protected mode for Firefox?

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  • Yet another high cpu using flash issue

    Salutations. What I'm about to tell you won't come to you as a surprise as there have been many similar topics discussed here. In fact, on the first page, there were two. So let's get on with it!
    hp pavillion entertainment notebook dv6 e2170ee
    windows 7 64bit
    6gb ram
    intel core i7 cpu q 720 @ 1.60 GHz    (never overclocked. don't know how to)
    nvidia geforce gt 230m
    firefox is on safe mode. kind of better than regular mode.
    firefox waaaay better than chrome in handling flash. haven't tried it on ie. don't want to. i left ie8 at version 8
    flash hardware accelration is off
    firefox hardware accelaration is on
    latest flash player enabled
    latest shock player enabled
    latest flash director enabled
    latest firefox
    no idea if my vents and cooling system work properly. read several posts about this issue being related to hardware.
    i have updated my drivers using hp support assistant, driver detective, and windows update. wouldn't be surprised if there was a conflict with all this nvidia driver as well. went to the site. it detected my model and sent me the driver. had audio and video options in it.
    while writing this post, the adobe tab + 4 flash tabs off the same site (youtube, younow, cam sites, etc) are open.
    performance tab in taskbar says
    flashplayer 15 *32bit (2 processes with the same name but diff cpu usage by the way. why 2?) is using 5%
    firefox *32 bit is using 5%
    audiodg.exe is nowhere to be found
    now firefox and flashplayer keep alternating ofcourse. flash always ends up with higher cpu when everything breaks. i have noticed that even after closing ff, ff and flash are still in the processes table. they stay there for a bit. why?
    ISSUE NUMBER 1: i can't play a video and have flash players on at the same time. I'd like to watch a movie and every now and then look to my other screen to see what's going on with the flash site. it can't be done. all is well at the beginning then it goes to hell. i have the latest free version of bsplayer and videolan. Yes vlc handles better but it all goes to hell in the end. sometimes the video won't even show on vlc; only audio
    ISSUE NUMBER 2: i don't understand the logic behind the increase in cpu. if i have 6 tabs open all flash all is well. but at some point it just spikes up. so i always try to keep the number of flash tabs as low as possible. sometimes 4 are no issue but 5 are a big issue. sometimes closing a tab helps and sometimes it doesnt.
    ISSUE NUMBER 3: audiodg starts using more than 2%. It can go up to 11 or 13 even. That shouldn't happen. I've been told that for it to go beyond 2 or even 3 means there's a conflict. I had trouble dealing with this issue. I don't know what or where the conflict is. So if there's anyone here that's good at this please contact me. Ill post a pic of device manager. For the sound, i have 4 nvideo and 1 idt audio codec. I cdon't know which to disable or uninstall. im thinking of unintalling every audio/video driver i hav and start from the beginning. BUT LETS NOT MAKE THIS ABOUT AUDIO/VIDEO CONFLICT
    QUESTION 1: was there ever a time when this issue didn't exist? perhaps there's a "stable" version of ff or flash that don't cause this.
    QUESTION 2: ive seen a lot of posts about this but I honestly can't remember any participants saying OH REALLY? ODD, I NEVER HAD THIS ISSUE BEFORE
    QUESTION 3: isn't there some kind of tracer that can track the moment that it goes to hell? im sure there is but no one's mentioned it so far
    QUESTION 4: would buying a new laptop solve this? I'd like to think not since the issue is flash not the capabilities of a laptop but i can't help but think that a better laptop will fix this. My laptop is 4 years old.
    QUESTION 5: i don't know anything about multithreading or multiple cores handling a single process but if someone showed me how, would that resolve my issue?
    MY WISH: for flash to coexist peacefully with human beings

    Disabling Hardware Acceleration in Flash means that we're doing all of the processing on the CPU, instead of on the GPU.  The GPU is purpose-built for 3D graphics and video decoding and is far more power efficient.  Decoding H.264 video in software is very CPU intensive, which is why we made the huge investment to enable hardware acceleration on the vast majority of available desktop hardware. Running six CPU intensive tasks simultaneously (which is what you're doing by using six simultaneous tabs) is unsurprisingly going to tax your machine.
    If you've disabled Hardware Acceleration because video wasn't working right or something, figuring out how to get that enabled (or moving to better hardware with good driver support) would solve the vast majority of what you're describing here.  If HP doesn't offer updated drivers, I'd recommend trying the corresponding Nvidia drivers, as OEMs aren't always motivated to pick up the latest fixes once a model is no longer generating new revenue for them.  The chipset manufacturers tend to provide longer support, but those drivers aren't officially supported by the OEM.
    The architecture for Protected Mode for Firefox is a result of the fact that we've retrofitted a modern plug-in security approach to a legacy plug-in architecture.  As you've noticed, equivalent sandboxing in other major browsers is designed into their plug-in architectures, and is therefore more efficient.  We've made huge investments to support modern security architecture and always do our best to accommodate efforts from our partners in the browser space to further secure the browser.  You can find a detailed explanation of our approach to Firefox here: Inside Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox
    Firefox controls the instantiation and destruction of Flash instances.  You'll also notice that Firefox hangs out for a while after shutdown.  This is something that we're aware of, but it's beyond our control.
    Flash doesn't have much to do with audiodg, except for the fact that it generates sound and uses the windows sound subsystem.  This article seems to present some reasonable advice in resolving issues with high CPU consumption from the sound subsystem.  Fix Audiodg.exe High CPU Usage in Windows 7 | Windows EXE Errors
    Hardware accelerated video encoding is typically not available on consumer-grade hardware (primarily because of the difference in licensing models for encoding and decoding with popular commercial codecs), and therefore is done on the CPU.  The particular website chooses what codecs and bitrates are involved, and higher quality feed will consume more CPU.  It's also worth pointing out that not all video can be decoded in hardware.  We provide clear guidance to content providers on how to encode video so that it can be played back efficiently, it's ultimately up to the content provider to follow that advice.
    So, long story short, each tab consumes resources.  Running a single tab is going to use less resources than running multiple tabs.  The latest version of Internet Explorer does some stuff to reduce resource consumption in tabs that you're not actively looking at.  We're discussing possibilities with the Chrome folks for doing the same thing in Chromium-based browsers.  Mozilla isn't interested in investing in browser plug-ins, so we don't expect to see the necessary browser-side improvements there.  The Chrome sandboxing model is more efficient that protected mode for Firefox, so tasks that require moving a lot of data (like streaming video) may use less CPU in Chrome.
    To answer your questions specifically:
    1.) There was a time before we supported multiple tabs, webcam streaming, H.264 video decoding and modern security sandboxing.  I wouldn't recommend using those versions.
    2.) There are a few posts about this, but we have ~1.5 billion users.  The majority of the very small number of folks relative to our install base are complaining their machines are overheating, which is a symptom of an ineffective cooling system. 
         There's nothing magic about Flash that causes it to somehow superheat the CPU.
         There was a time before tabs, where people didn't normally run 5-50 browser windows.  Websites also got much more complex, and the security threats got far more serious and complex.
         Playing video as a plug-in in the browser as opposed to something like VLC is inherently less efficient, as pretty much each pixel and packet gets passed through the browser before it gets to the OS or drivers.
         All of these things require additional processing.  The resources on your computer are still finite, and there is an upper limit to the number of simultaneous tabs you can use.
         At some point, you come to a juncture where you need to decide between throwing more hardware at the problem, or using less tabs simultaneously.
         Also, most laptops have power saving CPUs, so they'll ratchet the clock speed down to save battery.  You might want to check your power settings to make sure you're running at the CPU's full capacity when plugged in.
    3.) Not that would generate anything really useful.
    4.) Possibly.  You actually already have a multi-core machine.  I think you'd get more bang for your buck by enabling hardware acceleration and switching browsers.
    5.) You already have a multi-core machine that we support.
    Your Wish: We're constantly addressing security issues identified through our own testing, emerging research and intelligence from our partners in academia, government and industry.  We're also looking for opportunities to tune the player, but the reality is that Intel, Nvidia and ATI (and a long list of others, in addition to Adobe) have tuned Flash Player extensively for their hardware.  We work closely with the Internet Explorer and Chrome teams to continue to make the Flash experience better, and are always happy to work with the Firefox team should they decide that they're interested in plug-ins and the desktop browser again.  At the end of the day, Flash is just a low-level runtime.  It's just as possible to write inefficient ActionScript as it is to write inefficient C++, and while we provide some fantastic tooling for profiling your Flash content, it's up to individual content providers to write efficient code.  It's really difficult to find opportunities to make generic optimizations that don't break a percentage of the hundreds of millions of sites published with Flash content.
    I'm actually still not clear on what the problem you're experiencing is.  All software running on your machine that's actively processing something is going to use a non-zero percentage of CPU time.  The symptoms you describe indicate that Flash consumes 5% of the CPU, which is totally reasonable.  I'm guessing that I don't have the complete story.

  • Will asynchronous execution be in flash?

    Hello all, I have faced with the problem: when it's needed to do large amounts of calculations flash just hangs. No difference if is it in browser or is air application - all user interface just hanging and user is watching "Program not responding".
    In Flash 4 we could get hang state only with endless cycles , not with gotoAndPlay and button actions )
    But now we can develop fully functional applications, but not yet able to run it well(( There are many samples: advanced calculations / ciphering - hanging for a parts of seconds, conversion from bitmap data to jpg - few seconds hanging, working with big files - hash/convert formats - hanging up to minutes...
    Doesn't it means that flash developers should think about asynchronous code execution (such as multithreading))?
    So it's will be great to see some kind of "Thread" class with some kind of "synchronized" blocks in further versions of action script!)

    https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

  • Do dual-core proccessors count for minimum spec on Flash Player 11?

    According to the minimum specs for Adobe Flash Player 11 on a Windows computer it needs a 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor.  The majoriity of our computers run dual core, or indeed quad core processors, but each core is less than 2.33Ghz. 
    My question is this, does the minimum spec of 2.33GHz apertain to each core or is it the total of all the cores i.e. a dual core 2.25Ghz = 4.5GHz processing power, therefore a dual core 2.25GHz would meet the minimum spec?
    Another question regarding minimum specs, does the 128MB graphics memory have to be dedicated RAM i.e. VRAM, or can it be shared RAM?

    My question is this, does the minimum spec of 2.33GHz apertain to each core or is it the total of all the cores i.e. a dual core 2.25Ghz = 4.5GHz processing power, therefore a dual core 2.25GHz would meet the minimum spec?
    Works on a 2.27GHz i5, try 11.1 on a computer and see how it works.  If it does not, try the 11.2 beta which can multithread cores.
    Another question regarding minimum specs, does the 128MB graphics memory have to be dedicated RAM i.e. VRAM, or can it be shared RAM?
    No, yes.

  • How director is better then flash

    hi
    i m the user director but on some point i m so much confuse
    about the director
    i really feel comfort and relax in director..i can easily
    develop the application in the director ..but .when y u work in
    director y u are not work in flash...flash also can do all ... at
    this time I have no proper and satisfy answer to give the prove
    them all....
    Tell me guys
    Y director is good....
    What r the difference b/w director and flash?
    How can I satisfy them technically?
    I know that flash good software but I wana know that point
    which make the director better then flash.
    What are these points?
    Soon im going to conduct the seminer..here people think
    director is not good software ..they think is so much difficult ..
    So I wana tell them about the director. is good
    software…y
    Plz reply me
    Thx a lot
    Regard
    farhana khan

    > What seems to be happening with Director and Flash is
    that they are more
    > alike with every new release. It is getting harder and
    harder to explain
    > what the difference is to non-users, and that is a bad
    bad sign.
    Hmm.. Well, maybe it's time to explain what I meant by 'I'm
    working on it'.
    I sure am not adobe, or mm, but I'd bet that most of the
    regular list
    members care about Director more than anyone at any company.
    A couple years back, shortly after mus got discontinued to be
    more precise,
    and by not finding any descent networking Xtra, I started
    building one. The
    initial goal was to build a socket Xtra that could transfer
    binary strings.
    But soon as I got the hang of it, I started adding all the
    stuff of my
    personal Director wish list that came to mind. And the Xtra
    evolved beyond
    and initial expectation - and timeline for that matter.
    The 'official' announcement talked about unicode. But that
    was just the
    first object revealed.
    The Xtra includes objects (strings, lists, date, image...)
    that are both
    faster and more flexible than their Director's equivalents,
    well as new
    objects that aim to include all that windows/c++ has to offer
    for their
    field (socket, services, file/shell...).
    It has been a long and mostly lonely journey...
    You can visit
    http://xtrema.rtr.gr/cDown/
    to get an idea.
    Now that the core is finished, all experimental objects are
    updated and
    added to the pack. The idea is, soon as certain base objects
    are completed,
    to produce some freeware apps for advanced tasks (like
    managing services),
    in an attempt to give Director back it's good name. I guess
    that at the
    time, I'll make a call to any director developer that wishes
    to participate
    in such a project to lend a hand (gui / suggestions etc).
    Don't forget: If it can be done with c++, it can be done must
    faster, and
    with far less debugging, in Director. Long as you can call
    c++ routines that
    will give you access to the system functions that is (aka
    Xtras).
    As a pro app builder, I find Director to have just one
    drawback. No
    multithreading support for lingo scripts. Any number of
    threads can work on
    the background (like e.g. getNetText), but there will be
    bottlenecking when
    it comes to callbacks. So, building a director based
    enterprise server is
    out of the question. But building a game or mid-business
    server capable of
    hosting thousands of clients isn't.
    Regards,
    Harris.
    "LOOPING_Richard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]...
    >-> My reply at the bottom...
    >
    >
    >
    > "alchemist" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >> Director was created for building stand-alone apps.
    >> Flash was built to enhance web pages.
    >>
    >> No matter how much both (especially flash) these
    programs have evolved,
    >> they still are doing best what they were created to
    do.
    >> Director with it's open architecture (see Xtras) can
    have extended access
    >> to the os.
    >> With Flash, you have to work with what mm/adobe is
    offering - and, in the
    >> latest versions, that's much more than most projects
    will require.
    >>
    >> Director is usually faster than flash, due to it's
    design.
    >> I'd guess that Flash is easier to port to various
    OSs because of it's
    >> control-dependent nature.
    >>
    >> Flash is sure heading to the right direction.
    >> As for Director.. It still is a great program for
    rapid application
    >> developing, and with adequate performance - which
    can be excellent, if
    >> cpu demanding code is transferred from lingo to Xtra
    calls.
    >>
    >> So, the question should probably be Director vs VB
    or something instead
    >> of vs Flash.
    >> Far as I am concerned, mm, after version 8.5, took
    the wrong turn, and
    >> instead of expanding director towards application
    development, or
    >> enhancing it's 3D capabilities, it just created a
    new interface, added
    >> javascript support -good step, but a bit out of the
    blue- and buried mus,
    >> which was a valuable tool for network gaming.
    >>
    >> Imagine if Director had all the features needed to
    create professional
    >> applications.. Why not? It's fast, stable, easy and
    expandable. Is it
    >> maybe time to leave aesthetics and animations to
    Flash, and start turning
    >> director to a pro-app builder? Personally, I'm sure
    working on it.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> "farhanakhan" <[email protected]>
    wrote in message
    >> news:[email protected]...
    >>> hi
    >>> i m the user director but on some point i m so
    much confuse about the
    >>> director
    >>>
    >>> i really feel comfort and relax in director..i
    can easily develop the
    >>> application in the director ..but .when y u work
    in director y u are
    >>> not work
    >>> in flash...flash also can do all ... at this
    time I have no proper and
    >>> satisfy
    >>> answer to give the prove them all....
    >>>
    >>> Tell me guys
    >>> Y director is good....
    >>> What r the difference b/w director and flash?
    >>> How can I satisfy them technically?
    >>> I know that flash good software but I wana know
    that point which make
    >>> the
    >>> director better then flash.
    >>> What are these points?
    >>> Soon im going to conduct the seminer..here
    people think director is not
    >>> good
    >>> software ..they think is so much difficult ..
    >>> So I wana tell them about the director. is good
    software?y
    >>> Plz reply me
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> Thx a lot
    >>>
    >>> Regard
    >>> farhana khan
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >
    > Hi Alchemist,
    > thats a very good point you make, and I agree totally. I
    also use Director
    > mostly for prototyping new applications and demo-stuff.
    >
    > What seems to be happening with Director and Flash is
    that they are more
    > alike with every new release. It is getting harder and
    harder to explain
    > what the difference is to non-users, and that is a bad
    bad sign.
    > I still suspect MM/Adobe would like to make it 1 product
    that is both
    > Flash and Director, and I still think that is the wrong
    decision.
    >
    > Anyway... I hope for the best, and keep using the old
    versions as long as
    > possible.
    >
    > Richard
    >

  • JFlashPlayer and multithread support

    I'm currently working on a image generation task which will be handled by a SWF file. Since the end result should be highly multithreaded in nature ,I cannot invoke a browser, So I'm using JFlashPlayer.All I need is to create a JFrame with an SWF embedded.The embedded SWF will do my job and once its done , It will notify the container(JFrame) to dispose itself.
    This will work perfectly fine in a single threaded environment,But if I create more than 5 threads ,the application will crash throwing system out of memory errors from the Flash player.
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    Any suggestions guys ?
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    Do you want to play multi flash files from the JFrame i.e each flash files has its own JFlashPlayer
    If you have bought this package then the best think is to get support from the vendor [email protected]
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  • Flash Player lags in Win 7 x64

    Hello,
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    Nevermind, I've figured out that my processor was faulty. The problem is solved now.

  • Multithreaded Video Decoding and Seek frame accuracy for seamless m4a loop

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    Seamless looping using seek will not work very well. It will have to be a separate feature.
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  • Flash Builder hangs a lot

    Guys, seriously, Flash Builders hangs in all our machines like 4-5 times a day. If you press CTRL+F2 to terminate the debugging session, it hangs 1 in 2. I think that you have serious problems with the multithreading.
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    Mike Morearty has let??? Who is working in Flash Builder? Please, make it rock solid!!!
    And, by the way, I love Flex 4. The spark skinning. The states syntax. The two-way binding. It is incredible! You have improved over the Microsoft work in WPF. It is simpler and more elegant. Please, repair Flash Builder.

    My Flash Builder 4 (Version 4.0.1 build 277662) also hangs (1-2 times per day).   It can hang randomly, but often I think it's related to the Content Assist window getting stuck.
    I run it on Windows 2003 Server SP2 with 1.5GB RAM.     I generally launch apps to IIS 6 and use IE7 for the browser.
    My only recovery is to kill the Flashbuilder task and start it up again.     I'm pretty much in the "save and save often" mode nowadays.    Especially when I'm doing anything that might bring up the Content Assist window.
    I've included a jstack trace.
    Thanks.
    C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\bin>jstack 752
    2010-10-10 09:05:13
    Full thread dump Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (14.2-b01 mixed mode):
    "com.adobe.flexide.editorcore.editor.IdleTypingReconciler" daemon prio=2 tid=0x3
    9974c00 nid=0x9e0 in Object.wait() [0x3ee0f000]
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            at org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler.AbstractReconciler$BackgroundThread
    .run(AbstractReconciler.java:179)
            - locked <0x0c79fc28> (a org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler.DirtyRegionQu
    eue)
    "Worker-34" prio=6 tid=0x3958f400 nid=0xb24 in Object.wait() [0x3c62f000]
       java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING (on object monitor)
            at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool.sleep(WorkerPool.java:185)
            - locked <0x052e14b0> (a org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool.startJob(WorkerPool.java:21
    7)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:51)
    "Worker-33" prio=6 tid=0x33c97400 nid=0xccc in Object.wait() [0x3b85f000]
       java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING (on object monitor)
            at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool.sleep(WorkerPool.java:185)
            - locked <0x052e14b0> (a org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool.startJob(WorkerPool.java:21
    7)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:51)
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       java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING (on object monitor)
            at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool.sleep(WorkerPool.java:185)
            - locked <0x052e14b0> (a org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool.startJob(WorkerPool.java:21
    7)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:51)
    "Worker-31" prio=6 tid=0x36a7dc00 nid=0xb00 in Object.wait() [0x3b62f000]
       java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING (on object monitor)
            at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool.sleep(WorkerPool.java:185)
            - locked <0x052e14b0> (a org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.WorkerPool.startJob(WorkerPool.java:21
    7)
            at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:51)
    "com.adobe.flexide.editorcore.editor.IdleTypingReconciler" daemon prio=2 tid=0x3
    3e98800 nid=0xcd4 in Object.wait() [0x3b49f000]
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            at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
            at org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler.AbstractReconciler$BackgroundThread
    .run(AbstractReconciler.java:179)
            - locked <0x0b6ee648> (a org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler.DirtyRegionQu
    eue)
    "com.adobe.flexide.editorcore.editor.IdleTypingReconciler" daemon prio=2 tid=0x3
    9a2d400 nid=0xa24 in Object.wait() [0x386bf000]
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    0004 [W] 00001037 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerPlugin/ 2
    0005 [W] 00001037 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer/SwfInstall 2
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