Archive for June, 2009

Quicktip #5: int is faster than uint

Posted by Bart Claessens on June 15, 2009
ActionScript 3, Flash, Flex, QuickTips / No Comments

The past few weeks I’ve been programming a scheduling component in Flash which has to be extremely performant. Every small adaption in my code that could help with limiting the processing needs is a good adaption. Today I stumbled upon a post of Grant Skinner in which he explains that using a uint is slower than a normal int. The uint’s can get five times slower than using a normal int.

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