Today’s article is the conclusion of the series updating my performance tests in light of the newly-released Flash Player 10.2. If you haven’t read part one or part two, that would be a good place to start. If you already have, read on for the conclusion!
Flash Player 10.2 Performance: Part 2
Today’s article follows up on last week’s article that began by running many of the performance tests on this site with the newly-released Flash Player 10.2. Last week I got through half of the performance tests I did in my Flash Player 10.1 followup (see part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and today I’ll cover the second half. What faster and what’s slower in Flash Player 10.2? Read on for a ton of performance test updates!
Flash Player 10.2 Performance: Part 1
From a performance perspective, lots changed in Flash 10.1 (see part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). Flash Player 10.2 was officially released last week, so it’s time to update this site’s many performance tests to the new player. This time around I’ll be updating more performance tests per part of this series, so hopefully everything will be updated a lot quicker than last time. Read on for the updates!
Redundant Code
Why do I see so many AS3 programmers writing so much redundant code? Are you one of them? Today’s tips may save you a lot of typing. It may even save you a lot of SWF size.
Class Bootup Part 2
Today’s article follows up on an article I wrote way back in August of 2009 about the order of operations when you use a class. In the original article I showed the order of field initializers and constructors. Today I’m expanding on that to show three more chunks of code that are run. Can you guess what those chunks are?
Class Dependencies
One of AS3’s strong suits is its ability to very easily use classes in a dynamic way. Every once in a while, this leads MXMLC to completely remove some of your classes from the output SWF and you then get some very strange behavior. Read on for some strategies for using dynamic classes without going insane.
Typecasting: Part 3
Today’s article is a followup to an article (Cast Speed, itself a followup to Two Types of Casts) from September that continues to gather comments. Sharp-eyed reader fastas3 brought up a good point that warranted some further investigation into the topic. So today we’ll be taking yet-another look at typecasting in AS3 to try to unravel some of its strange mysteries.
Default Arguments
Conditionals Performance Revisited
Today I’m revisiting an article I wrote last August about conditionals: if-else chains, ternary (? :) operators, and switch statements. In that article I showed that if-else chains are about as fast as ternary operators and that both of them are 10-15% faster than switch statements. Today we’ll take a look at how those conditionals scale beyond just the few cases in the last article.
For Vs. While Revisited
I wrote an article last November titled For Vs. While that needs a bit of updating an expanding today. While I updated the performance figures in my series on Flash 10.1 performance, I continue to get questions in the comments section of the original article that explore new areas. So today we’ll look at the ubiquitous for and while loops a little more.