GSkinner’s Quick as a Flash presentation

The always insightful GSkinner just posted another installment of Creating Great Developers, this time focusing on Training. From there I linked to his great presentation Quick as a Flash which discusses Flash performance and optimization. I was really surprised by the stats on several slides. Note that his slides are calculating these stats in real-time, pretty cool.

• use implicit type casting
  • exception: iterators
• bitwise tricks
• callbacks are faster than events for callbacks and dispatch
• class props are slow
• array and vector population
• splicing and deleting – wow, I assumed vector would have been much faster here
• clean your screen

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