Adobe AIR and performance

I do not have a very fast computer. I’m not posting benchmarks anywhere, anytime soon. But I’ve managed to put some pretty extravagant animations in my current project without impacting the framerate, which is somewhere around 50. Not bad.

But when I start working in AIR, the framerate does take a hit. And I’m wondering why. What latency does AIR have that the Flash player doesn’t? Is there something I can do about it?

It’s kind of early in the game to ask you guys AIR questions still, but if I find anything that greatly affects AIR’s performance, I’ll post it right up here.