ActionScript 3 Performance Testing
Have you ever been curious about performance (benchmark) tests in ActionScript 3? Here are some results gathered from gskinner blog. Performance testing on loops (read more)....
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How to resize an image with ActionScript (update)
If you need to resize an image on client side, I mean real bitmapData resize (not just showing scaled), feel free to use ImageResizer class. This class takes bitmapData of source image, new width and...
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Myth Buster – Benchmarking Loops
Lets have a look at some of the most common and fastest loops used in ActionScript 3. Is int really faster than uint and Number? Is while loop faster than for? Is pre-increment faster than...
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A different view on loops – listener-looping
What is the usual practice when searching / setting / operating over some list of item? I think you usually think of iterating over some list (array) or linked list etc. Well, ActionScript has to...
View ArticleQuick tip: Fastest ActionScript PNGEncoder (update)
Here are some benchmark tests for current available PNGEncoders. Sync encoding tested on 2 real bitmap images (500x300px, 256x256px) on Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.80GHz, win XP: encoder / image 500x333 px...
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