On 8/2/16, 7:04 PM, "bilbosax" <waspenc...@comcast.net> wrote:
>What about changing datatypes, does this eat up a lot of time? My >database >has some values that are typed as string but are actually numbers. When I >download them from the database, I assume that they are entered into the >arraycollection as strings. In my loops, I have to do math functions on >them so I force them to a number type as such: > >var a:Number = Number(myArray[1].someProp)*10; > >When doing this a large number of times in big loops, will it eat up a >significant amount of time or is type conversion pretty fast? It would have shown up in the profiler if it was a big deal. But again, if you waste 10ms 100 times, you've wasted a full second. Not that the type conversion would take 10ms, just that if you have a lot of stuff, and care about every second, even small stuff can make a difference. -Alex
