Really, really small Flex files

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I am not even going to mention that Flex 3 public beta is out because you already know.

What you may have been too excited to notice though is that Flex 3 will now cache the Flex framework for users meaning that Flex applications don’t have to save all of that stuff in the SWF file making them very small (like 50KB). Think about that! This is huge news and I predict it will be the final stroke that wins many Flex skeptics over to the platform. Not only that, but you’ll be able to include your own custom runtime shared libraries (also cached) so you can create functionality that’s shared between several applications.

Ted Patrick, in his evangelical way, describes this feature with handy diagrams on his blog.

There is also an introduction to new features on Adobe Labs so you can gush over videos and samples of all the new features.

On a side note, it looks like Leopard, the new version of OS X, will provide significant improvements for quickly accessing your porn.

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