title: why is adobe air so slow
body: <p>I tried air for a few applications such as tweetdeck, ebay, however they are prohibitively slow, I'm using a ubuntu 8.04 system.</p>
  
  <p>Is this a common issue ?</p>
  
  <p>In my first thought, AIR should be faster than web-browsing, </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>AIR only need to get the "data", and locally store the "format"</li>
  <li>the dynamic effects are taken care of by FLEX rather than javascript,which should be faster.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>what's your opinion?</p>