Drunk on Software Episode 3 – Performance Pitfalls of Flex’s ArrayCollection

2008-11-21 (Last Modified: 2008-11-21)

Jon and I have posted Episode 3 of the Drunk on Software video podcast. In this episode we talk about some of the real world performance issues with Flex’s ArrayCollection. We’ve also created a few demos which illustrate how in some cases ArrayCollection is 26 times slower than Array:

Instancing Array vs ArrayCollection Performance (view source)
Adding items to Array vs ArrayCollection Performance (view source)

Let us know what you think.