Comments on: AS3 Short Variable/Function Names vs Long Ones http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/ "Chaotic Neutral" Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: How Descriptive Variable Names Affect a SWF’s File Size | Nicolas Schudel http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-15716 How Descriptive Variable Names Affect a SWF’s File Size | Nicolas Schudel Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:19:09 +0000 http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/#comment-15716 [...] variable names perform better than long ones. But again, not enough to make it worthwhile throughout the entire [...] [...] variable names perform better than long ones. But again, not enough to make it worthwhile throughout the entire [...]

]]> By: JCKodel http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-11312 JCKodel Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:37:08 +0000 http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/#comment-11312 People always say "I will never make a 4000 iterations loop, so 100, 200 ms does not worth it". Just a word of warning: when programming games or graphic intense applications, for a 60 FPS you got 16.67 ms to perform ALL your drawing routines... So, yes, each ms counts for! For programmers like me from de 80's when we had 3.58Mhz (yes, mhz, not ghz) and only about 32Kb of RAM (yes, kb, not mb, not gb), every optimization counts :D Otherwise will be a "Vista": doesn't matter performance. Let our users buy faster and expensives machines. =( (p.s.: preety weird this post form uh? Labels beneath the fields????) People always say “I will never make a 4000 iterations loop, so 100, 200 ms does not worth it”.

Just a word of warning: when programming games or graphic intense applications, for a 60 FPS you got 16.67 ms to perform ALL your drawing routines… So, yes, each ms counts for!

For programmers like me from de 80′s when we had 3.58Mhz (yes, mhz, not ghz) and only about 32Kb of RAM (yes, kb, not mb, not gb), every optimization counts :D

Otherwise will be a “Vista”: doesn’t matter performance. Let our users buy faster and expensives machines. =(

(p.s.: preety weird this post form uh? Labels beneath the fields????)

]]> By: sascha http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-452 sascha Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:59:40 +0000 http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/#comment-452 Keith you are right! ... But you should know I speak with the mind of a game programmer whose roots are in the 80ties 8bit times! ;) Keith you are right! … But you should know I speak with the mind of a game programmer whose roots are in the 80ties 8bit times! ;)

]]> By: Keith Peters http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Keith Peters Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:38:44 +0000 http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/#comment-451 I'm not saying that there is no difference, even in AS3, I actually don't know. What I'm mainly saying is that any difference is going to be relatively small, and at the expense of obfuscating your code. I've actually gravitated towards longer, more descriptive variable names as time has gone by. Back in the days of Flash 5, such hacks were more important, as the Flash player was so slow, anything you could do do squeeze a few more milliseconds out of it was worth it. Also, in those days people were just doing more web sites, games, animations, etc. Now that the player is SOOO much faster, and people are doing full fledged applications with hundreds of classes, good development practices are FAR more important than optimization tricks. Of course, if you are doing some kind of crazy, cpu killing animation, you might find something like this helps a bit, but I can bet that in any swf that has any significant amount of code, I could find some other optimization that would save even more time than shortening your var names. I’m not saying that there is no difference, even in AS3, I actually don’t know. What I’m mainly saying is that any difference is going to be relatively small, and at the expense of obfuscating your code. I’ve actually gravitated towards longer, more descriptive variable names as time has gone by.

Back in the days of Flash 5, such hacks were more important, as the Flash player was so slow, anything you could do do squeeze a few more milliseconds out of it was worth it. Also, in those days people were just doing more web sites, games, animations, etc. Now that the player is SOOO much faster, and people are doing full fledged applications with hundreds of classes, good development practices are FAR more important than optimization tricks.

Of course, if you are doing some kind of crazy, cpu killing animation, you might find something like this helps a bit, but I can bet that in any swf that has any significant amount of code, I could find some other optimization that would save even more time than shortening your var names.

]]> By: sascha http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-450 sascha Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:41:49 +0000 http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/#comment-450 Well when AS2.0 went live there were some statements flying around that name length still matters. Good to know that it wasn't really that much of problem. With AS3.0 it seems we can finally forget about this issue completely. Well when AS2.0 went live there were some statements flying around that name length still matters. Good to know that it wasn’t really that much of problem. With AS3.0 it seems we can finally forget about this issue completely.

]]> By: Foxy http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Foxy Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:15:07 +0000 http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/#comment-449 I'v just done the same test on AS2 some days ago here : http://www.foxaweb.com/blog/?p=41 #04 Length of var names. I perform the bench on 10 000 itérations a frame, so I think the result is not much different in AS3. Like Peters, I don't take care about this kind of optimization since it's realy deserve the lisiblity. I’v just done the same test on AS2 some days ago here : http://www.foxaweb.com/blog/?p=41 #04 Length of var names.

I perform the bench on 10 000 itérations a frame, so I think the result is not much different in AS3.

Like Peters, I don’t take care about this kind of optimization since it’s realy deserve the lisiblity.

]]> By: Keith Peters http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Keith Peters Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:24:48 +0000 http://blog.hexagonstar.com/as3-short-variablefunction-names-vs-long-ones/#comment-448 I stopped worrying about variable names back in Flash MX. It's probably the least bang you can get for the buck in terms of optimization. The "buck" being unreadable code, and the bang being the milliseconds you'd save. Yeah, you saved 3 seconds there, but I can't remember the last 4 million iteration loop I ran. :) I stopped worrying about variable names back in Flash MX. It’s probably the least bang you can get for the buck in terms of optimization. The “buck” being unreadable code, and the bang being the milliseconds you’d save. Yeah, you saved 3 seconds there, but I can’t remember the last 4 million iteration loop I ran. :)

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