In last week’s primer on the new domain memory (“Alchemy”) opcodes the initial test showed that they couldn’t match the performance of good old Vector when writing out a lot of float/Number values. Today’s article expands on that test to check the performance of writing integers and the performance of reading integers and float/Number values. Can the domain memory opcodes redeem themselves? Read on to find out.
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Since January, Adobe has dropped the “premium features” requirement for Flash apps that use the “domain memory opcodes” (a.k.a. “Alchemy opcodes”) that provide low-level performance-boosting operations that let you deal more-or-less directly with blocks of memory. Then in February we got Flash Player 11.6 along with built-in ASC 2.0 support for this feature. Today’s article shows you how to use these opcodes and takes a first stab at improving performance with them. Are they really all they’re cracked up to be?