Is pixel bender support GPU acceleration in Flash Player?

I know in the earily version of flash player 10, pixel bender is not support GPU acceleration in FP, but now the latest fp is 10.3, is this GPU feature implemented in the latest flash player? appreciate anybody could give me a clue.

Latest FP (10.3) is not supporting Pixel Bender on GPU yet. But, it's still on our roadmap.
Thanks,
Elba

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is flash player use registry to do that by saving values and changing them each enable/disable
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fredboy8 wrote:
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Who should we contact exactly? Could we have an address? What kind of beer do they like? :-)
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