To give Adobe some credit-they acknowledged that Flash has has lagged in the Mac side, but think v.10.1 will fix it-Adobe's Kevin Lynch:
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations...omment-2137153
Quote:
Now regarding performance, given identical hardware, Flash Player on Windows has historically been faster than the Mac, and it is for the most part the same code running in Flash for each operating system. We have and continue to invest significant effort to make Mac OS optimizations to close this gap, and Apple has been helpful in working with us on this. Vector graphics rendering in Flash Player 10 now runs almost exactly the same in terms of CPU usage across Mac and Windows, which is due to this work. In Flash Player 10.1 we are moving to CoreAnimation, which will further reduce CPU usage and we believe will get us to the point where Mac will be faster than Windows for graphics rendering.
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And if you are interested in how Adobe is working with Apple's Core Animation framework this time around:
http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/02/core-animation.html
The interesting part of course, is that Core Animation is an API for Mac OSX (Leopard and Snow Leopard), but originated in the iPhone OS X...so will of course be part of the iPad's OS.