Posts Tagged closures

Activation Objects

Oct 11

Posted by jackson in AS3

Closures are a really nice feature of AS3 (and JavaScript and AS2) and I’ve shown their performance disadvantages compared to regular methods before. Today I’ll discuss a further performance downside to closures that can slow down your code, not just the function call itself.

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Case Statements

Sep 25

Posted by jackson in AS3

The lowly switch statement and its attendant case statements is a basic element of most C-style languages. Still, I was surprised by it recently when it seemingly ate one of my functions. Read on to see how.

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