Comments on: The flash.geom.Point Class is Slow

By: Paul de Jong

Paul de Jong — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:34:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing your Point class! However I found a small bug (or missing feature ;) > you only added getters for the x and y properties, no setters. For full compatiblity with flash.geom.Point those should be added.

By: David R

David R — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:37:21 +0000

Actually, some ppl decoded some parts of the flash player, and the flash.geom.* are implemented in actionscript, not as native methods. Their implementation is probably not the most optimized either, which is why you can write a faster version.

By: Keith Peters

Keith Peters — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:39:12 +0000

that’s really bizarre. I’m guessing flash.geom.Point offloads a lot of its operations to the Matrix class, which would be slower than doing the simple math for most calculations. Still, since these classes are built into the player, I’d have thought they’d still have an advantage.