Easy AS3 Tips For Conserving CPU In The Flash Player

Easy AS3 Tips For Conserving CPU In The Flash Player

Easy AS3 Tips For Conserving CPU In The Flash Player

A really good tutorial by Patrick Jaoko published on ActiveTuts+ broke down the code of a bloated particle system and then step by step detailed what can be done to increase the speed and overall performance of the SWF. It was amazing to see how some of the littlest tweaks shown a big difference in CPU. The before and after results are worth checking out. Here are a few of the most basic tweaks he employs — some of which I never thought about but are good to know.

New Article: oCanvas: A jQuery- and Flash-Style Library for HTML5 Canvas

New Article: oCanvas: A jQuery- and Flash-Style Library for HTML5 Canvas

New Article Live:
oCanvas: A jQuery- and Flash-Style Library for HTML5 Canvas

Back in March ActiveTuts+ published the article I written about the HTML5 Canvas library, oCanvas. Learn how you can easily create HTML5 apps and animations with this simple library. If you ever used jQuery before, you will marvel at the simplicity of oCanvas.