Re: FLASH: f5 player bug or what is going on ?

[Till Steinmetz]

Hi Matt,


>Hmm, so the issue is that the F5 version consumes 100% of your CPU power? I

>checked both URLs on my NT machine and noticed no differences - both played

>fine. On Mac, the F5 version played slower than the F4 one, but it didn't

>crash or anything.

>

>It might be worthwhile seeing if you can further isolate the issue. If

>there's a point in your ActionScript that causes the situation to happen, it

>would deserve further scrutiny.


It is caused by the ActionScript. Severin Klaus sent me a different Flash 5 

approach to the problem which is running very fast by eliminating a lot 

char-to-code conversions. In my version i use string.charCodeAt() everytime 

to compare the ascii-values of two characters i want to change. in his 

version he writes all the char-codes to an array once and then compares the 

numeric values from this array. No doubt, he did the cleaner, better 

approach to the problem but i still think this still should be considered a 

bug in the flash 5 player string routines. It's strange that you didn't 

notice any difference between the flash 4 and the flash 5 version. take a 

look at this screenshot of the system monitor on my pc (P2-400 / 256 MB 

Ram, running Win98 SE).


http://www.handlanger.de/flash/cpu_load.gif


Are there some known issues with the flash 5 string routines or is this a 

new problem ?


Till



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