Vectors

Flash Player 10.1: Verifiable speed increase.

06/14/2010 in RIA View Comments

While running some quick tests on Vector declaration using Jackson Dunstan’s quick test harness, I decided to check out the speed difference between Flash Player 10 and Flash Player 10.1. I was still running FP10 and noticed a major difference after comparing my test results with what Jackson had posted. I grabbed the samples with FP10, then updated to FP10.1. Notice the difference below in speed, and the ONLY thing I did different was install 10.1, never even closing Flash Builder. I simply installed 10.1 and ran the app again to get the results. The 10.1 release was always faster, and in some cases at least 2x faster or more.

*Update
To make sense of the parameters shown below (cast, new, etc), review the tests actually ran from Jackon’s post. They represent the different ways to declare a Vector in AS3. [ click here ]

Safari on Mac OSX 10.6.3:
Flash Player 10:	Flash Player 10.1:
Chrome on Mac OSX 10.6.3:
Flash Player 10:	Flash Player 10.1:

This test was done on a brand spanking new i7 MBPro with 8GB of RAM, for anyone wanting to compare:

To try it yourself, check out Jackson’s test harness by clicking [here]