Nice news, Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro,” enables run applications and animation smoother and faster with expanded use of hardware acceleration. With capability to moving several visual processing tasks to the video card, and the CPU is free to do more.
In 3D features, lightweight and native built in 3D effects make easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while retaining full interactivity.
More informations regarding prerelease of Flash Player 10, read here