Re: Performance expectations for Flex JS

2013-01-30 Thread Alex Harui
On 1/30/13 1:12 AM, "Roland Zwaga" wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the snappiness of HTML5 applications has little to do > with the execution speed of JS. > In most modern browser VM's JS actually is faster than AS3, the trouble > starts when dealing with UI stuff, > which is more DOM or Canvas

Re: Performance expectations for Flex JS

2013-01-30 Thread Roland Zwaga
I'm pretty sure that the snappiness of HTML5 applications has little to do with the execution speed of JS. In most modern browser VM's JS actually is faster than AS3, the trouble starts when dealing with UI stuff, which is more DOM or Canvas related. another 2 cents... Roland On 29 January 2013

Re: Performance expectations for Flex JS

2013-01-29 Thread Erik de Bruin
> How would AS3 and JS versions of a typical app perform? If the AS3 version > is running 100% at 30fps, could the JS version keep up? Or do you expect the > JS version to out-perform? > > I guess its too early to answer these questions with any degree of > certainty, but what are the expectations?

Re: Performance expectations for Flex JS

2013-01-29 Thread Frank Wienberg
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Lee Burrows wrote: > 2) JS performance varies widely across browsers and even for best > performers, its not that snappy. > > Well, compiling AS3 to JS solves #1 but what about #2? > I'd expect that at least it doesn't make #2 any worse. The minimum overhead intro

Performance expectations for Flex JS

2013-01-29 Thread Lee Burrows
Hi all, I've been following with great interest the possibility of compiling Flex to JS. After flash armageddon, i started looking into HTML as an option for building RIAs but decided there were two problems: 1) JS isnt exactly OOP friendly and there's a lack of suitable tooling, which mak