On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Starling has its own EventDispatcher because the flash.events one doesn't > have a robust enough API to support bubbling up a custom display list. We > even tried implementing a custom IEventDispatcher in ActionScript, but > there were serious roadblocks getting weak references to work properly. It > was pretty frustrating. > > Event pooling didn't always exist in Starling. It was added long after the > custom EventDispatcher was originally created. Garbage collection on mobile > has a much heavier impact on performance than on desktop. Pooling reduced > GC slow downs significantly. > This is what I remembered reading, I was thinking about mobile and the GC when I wrote about the pooling above. > > - Josh > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Michael Schmalle < > teotigraphix...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > So are you saying Starling traded a bit of performance in event > dispatching > > to get object pools? Or was is that they needed to implement bubbling of > > their own display list, so they sacrificed performance. > > > > Mike > > > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Kessler CTR Mark J < > > mark.kessler....@usmc.mil> wrote: > > > > > Just a side bar on this. I believe a concern about using the > > > eventdispatcher like the one in starling was that it was slower than > one > > we > > > use from flash.events. It had to do with the fact the player was > > managing > > > the events vs using an actionscript driven one. Bumped into that when > I > > > explored managing the lists of the active events and I even made single > > > serving events that would remove themselves after one call. > > > > > > > > > -Mark > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Michael Schmalle [mailto:teotigraphix...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 6:30 AM > > > To: dev@flex.apache.org > > > Subject: Re: [FlexJS] Event names > > > > > > NOTE: I forgot to say that in the EventManager in the component > framework > > > can do it; > > > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/Gamua/Starling-Framework/blob/master/starling/src/starling/events/EventDispatcher.as > > > > > > See the method invokeEvent(), line 140. In a way, this makes the need > > for a > > > subclassed Event obsolete, the data IS the payload which can be a > > primitive > > > value or vo/struct class. > > > > > > The client knows what it needs. > > > > > > Mike > > > > > >
