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Flash 8 - performance increase 10988.2%

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Uff I know this sounds pretty good, but this is performance increase in
StringAdd: Use the += operator to append to a string 10,000 times = 10988.2% (from 3770 ms in FP7 to 34 ms in FP8) according Sample Flash Player Microbenchmark Tests from Macromedia site.

Another “Uff” increase is in Regular Expressions Library: Run regular expressions = 2254.05% (from 38,983 ms in FP7 to 1656 ms in FP8)

See whole Microbenchmark test results table

And read articles Performance Improvements in Flash Player 8 as well…

Enjoy.

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Mathias
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September 29th, 2005

What is that bunch of words at the top of your site and why is it always there?
Administrator
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September 29th, 2005

ths is category for posts, but 1 posts can be in multiple categories… they are called TAGs
Rohan
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September 29th, 2005

Errr… now exactly what flash RegularExpressionLibrary was it that I am supposed to be so impressed by.

AFAIK there is no such thing so why did they bother spending time to make Flash 8 faster to do something that is has even got.
m
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September 29th, 2005

and note that they did the string test in the “standalone” player. Try it in the web browser yourself. You won’t see 1000% increase. Sorry..

For the string concatenation test I’m seeing more like 850ms vs. 140ms which is not 1000%..
Administrator
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September 29th, 2005

There is some RegularExpression library, try to google something… but you can see perfomance increase in String and Math, or whatever it is, operations…
erikbianchi
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September 29th, 2005

Some more info on RegEx Engines in Flash: http://www.jurjans.lv/flash/RegExp.html?CFID=4139310&CFTOKEN=67581069

Also, if you really wanted to get creative you could use an External Interface to leverage the Javascript RegEx Engine

-erik
Robert White
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September 29th, 2005

Sigh… poor Mac. Flash you are a gorgeous thing, but a tiny thorn in the side of me that loves my Mac. Don’t get me wrong I’m glad it’s gotten better… Although I was shocked to discover there USED to be a few things the Mac player did faster…