thanks amy, i found that info confirmed by alex harui's famous itemrenderer post, under recycling, here: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/2007/03/thinking_about_item_renderers_1.html
~flexrookie --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Amy" <amyblankens...@...> wrote: > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "flexrookie" <flexrookie@> wrote: > > > > another question about ItemRenderers, using my previous stock example. > > > > i have noticed that my custom item renderer seems to be performing > > redundant executions. for a single dataProvider item, i see two > > renderer instances created. and for each instance, set data and > > commitProperties() are called repeatedly. > > http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/04/is-horizontallist-faster-than- > hbox-with.html >