One of the most rarely used keyword in ActionScript 3 is definitely the 'with' keyword. Let's see what the documentation tells us about this keyword:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Multiplication vs division
11:45 PM
fastas3
AS3 is definitely not a language for number crunching, but simple (or a little more complex) math is always with us.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Cast performance oddity
11:33 PM
fastas3
Recently, I've read a very nice article about cast speed in AS3 and made some experimets. While doing my own speed tests, I came up with strange results.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Math.floor vs int vs uint cast
11:46 PM
fastas3
When you have a POSITIVE floating point number and want to round it down, it's better to use
uint(2.33) than Math.floor(2.33). Casting positive number to uint directly is more than 17x (!!!) faster then Math.floor(). 
