IMHO, performance is very important, but for the main use cases where flex is choose over other technologies (IT applications, form applications, large scale apps,...) the benefits introduced in Fx4 are critical. So we need to get better both of them (performance and ease of development).
One of the things Alex comment in the blog post (order or addChilds in generated as3 code from mxml) seems to be something that could be done nowadays modifiync the mxmlc, isn't it? 2012/8/24 Tink <f...@tink.ws> > I started some stuff to see if I could remove the need for > SkinnableComponent to be a UIComponent. I didn't complete it but will get > back to it at some point. I would expect that to lighten initialization a > little. > > Tink > > Taras Kostyuk <tara...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Links: > >http://jackviers.blogspot.com/2011/03/flex-3-vs-flex-4a-performance.html > > > >Unresolved issues on Adobe issue tracking system: > >http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-29904 > >http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-31719 > >https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-29451 > > > > > >2012/8/24 Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> > > > >> > >> > >> > >> On 8/23/12 8:09 PM, "Jeffry Houser" <jef...@dot-com-it.com> wrote: > >> > >> > On 8/23/2012 5:30 PM, Taras Kostyuk wrote: > >> >> Hello Flex Community, > >> >> > >> >> Recently, I've read many articles that application developed using > Flex > >> 3 > >> >> SDK works much slowly on Flex 4 SDK. Also Spark component has lower > >> >> performance than MX. > >> > What have you read and do you have links? > >> Maybe here [1] > >> >> I am wondering if community has any plans to increase performance of > >> Spark > >> >> components and if so, when are you going to do it? > >> > > >> > Folks have expressed interest in working on performance. There are > >> > most likely some things that we can do; and in some cases the runtimes > >> > will limit us. > >> > > >> I'm always looking for ways to make things faster. Not sure there are > any > >> easy pickings out there. > >> > >> [1] > >> > >> > https://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/2011/04/migratory-foul-performance-problems-m > >> igrating-from-flex-3-x-to-flex-4-x.html > >> > >> -- > >> Alex Harui > >> Flex SDK Team > >> Adobe Systems, Inc. > >> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >> > >> > -- Carlos Rovira Director de Tecnología M: +34 607 22 60 05 F: +34 912 35 57 77 <http://www.codeoscopic.com> CODEOSCOPIC S.A. <http://www.codeoscopic.com> Avd. del General Perón, 32 Planta 10, Puertas P-Q 28020 Madrid