I’m a tard. Sorry. Don’t stay up til 4 am :)

it’s the debug player.

I was just screwing around testing hash lookup speeds, and ran into something very very curious. I originally though that putting multiple variable assignments onto one line would make things faster. But when I went deeper into it, it looks like *JUST* removing items and putting them onto one line makes things faster. Take the following code blocks, one with line breaks removed, one without.

private function test2():void {

	var start:int = getTimer();

	for (var count:int = 0; count < 1000000; count++) {
		var obj:Object = {};
		obj.a = 1;
		obj.b = 2;
	}

	// 808 ms
	trace(getTimer() - start);
}

private function test():void {

	var start:int = getTimer();

	// everything on one line
	for (var count:int = 0; count < 1000000; count++) { var obj:Object = {}; obj.a = 1; obj.b = 2; }

	// 641 ms
	trace(getTimer() - start);
}

If you haven’t seen the demo, look at http://www.onyx-vj.com/demo

First, download the AIR runtime at http://get.adobe.com/air.

Then download the AIR installer at:

http://www.onyx-vj.com/download/Onyx-VJ.air

What’s new?

File System access (saving reading/writing files)
MIDI! (next beta will be update for the mac version)
Automatic thumbnailing

For updates and more info, please join the google group at http://groups.google.com/group/onyxvj

tight:

http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/