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Flash Player 8.5 - SPEED!

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.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 17th, 2005 at 1:45 am and is filed under CSS, DENG, Flash. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Flash Player 8.5 - SPEED!”

  1. herdiansah Says:
    October 17th, 2005 at 2:06 am

    wow 12.5 performance boost… that very fast
    can’t wait to play with it

  2. Ralph Hauwert Says:
    October 17th, 2005 at 5:24 am

    AS3, public! Wow…looking forward to you example, but my first question would be how you compiled it ? Using the flex builder?

  3. Claus Wahlers Says:
    October 17th, 2005 at 5:39 am

    Flex Builder, yes

  4. Ralph Hauwert Says:
    October 18th, 2005 at 6:28 am

    http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/max_2005/tiny_update_and_an_example_of.html

    Thought you’d be interested in seeing this.