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Flash Player 8.5 Alpha is Fast
17th October 2005 | 0 Comments
Calling the new Flash 8.5 Alpha player fast is an understatement, it's mega fast. If there was a race between the Flash (the superhero), Superman and this player, the player would be leaving those two in the dust.
While I was testing out the Flex Builder 2.0 IDE I decided to check my super fast loop code. I had to make a few changes since prototyping isn't supported anymore, but they were minor. Anyway here are the new results:
| Method | FF 1 | IE 6 | Flash 7 SA | Flash 8 SA | Flash 8.5 in IE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| While Loop #2 | 94 | 177 | 286 | 255 | 16 |
And no 16ms is not a typo, it really is 1594% faster than the Flash 8 Standalone player. I haven't had too much time to play with it, but one of the boosts comes from the int datatype. Switching Number to int saved about 20ms, but the rest is just great engineering on Macromedia's part.
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