Any thoughts on speed limitations of Revlet?

[Edward D Lavieri Jr]

Richard,

This is a great explanation. Are Flash apps subject to the browers'  
"fairly extensive event loops" as well, or has Adobe overcome that  
somehow? It is interesting to see how the two products match up.

Ed

Edward Lavieri
ID Leaders



On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> James Hurley wrote:
>
>> I have uploaded an old stack of mine which is both calculational  
>> and  graphic-display intensive, my old Nine Ball simulation:
>> go url "http://jamesphurley.com/NineBallWithSpin.rev"
>> As I suspected from both Richard's and Sarah's findings that the   
>> calculational parts (calculating the positions and velocities of  
>> all  the balls and determining the new positions and velocities  
>> after    collisions) run very well in Safari. But the motion of the  
>> balls is  very stuttered. It runs at full speed, that is it takes  
>> the same time  to execute one "shot" but the motion of the balls is  
>> herky-jerky.
>
> My guess is this is related to the browser's event loop.
>
> When running in a standalone, there's only the Rev engine's event  
> loop and those of whatever other apps and OS components are running.
>
> But when running in the browser you have all of that plus the  
> browser's own fairly extensive event loop.
>
> I suspect with all of the events browsers need to trap, dispatch,  
> and handle, what you're seeing is just a natural by-product of  
> running inside the browser.
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
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