Why is Flash power-hungry?

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Published on 2011-11-11T16:52:32Z Indexed on 2011/11/11 17:59 UTC
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Apple historically argued that Flash was power-hungry, which made it inappropriate for use on mobile devices.

I always thought that was just bluster excusing Apple's exclusion of Flash support from their mobile devices.

But now I see that Adobe acknowledges that Flash is a pig. Why is it a pig? Are there bad programming approaches (that can be explained in layman's terms) that make it so power-hungry?

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