You heard the news already, Macromedia launched their Labs site today, along with public alphas of Flash Player 8.5, Flex Builder 2 and the Flex Framework 2.
Among the first things i did with those alpha goodies was porting the DENG CSS 3 parser to Actionscript 3.
Results of first benchmark (Parsing a 20kb CSS file into an object DOM):
- AS2, Flash Player 8: around 1000ms
- AS3, Flash Player 8.5: around 80ms
That’s a 12.5x performance boost, without FP8.5 specific optimizations.
Flash is fun again!
I’m going to prepare a live demo of the parser in the next days for you to play with it.
wow 12.5 performance boost… that very fast
can’t wait to play with it
AS3, public! Wow…looking forward to you example, but my first question would be how you compiled it ? Using the flex builder?
Flex Builder, yes
http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/max_2005/tiny_update_and_an_example_of.html
Thought you’d be interested in seeing this.