>>As for custom classes being slower than Player-native >>classes, that's probably true but I can't imagine that being >>a factor in parsing XML. That's optimization on a level that >>is too much for me to bother with.
I used to think that until I made heavy use of Xpath on an AS2 project. It really bogged down when I was grabbing a bunch of data at once. I wasn't doing anything too ambitious or crazy with the parsing either. I had to revert to native Actionscript XML classes (pre AS3 days) in order to fix it - the speed improvement was dramatic. It was more of a pain for sure, but a huge improvement in performance. Jason Merrill Bank of America L&LD GT&O eTools & Multimedia Research & Development _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
