One SWF to rule them all : The Almighty PreloadSWF
*EDIT 2010-08-27* this tool = @deprecated the NEW (and way better) version can be found at: FlashPreloadProfiler *END EDIT* In my last article I introduced you to a bunch of features hidden in mm.cfg,...
View ArticleFlash Assembler (not ByteCode) : And you thought it couldn’t get faster
In the last posts, I talked about what you can get from mm.cfg setups but I didn’t give any GREAT example of how to use that in an optimization context. Well here it is: var a:int = 1; var b:int = 2; b...
View ArticleFlash Preload Profiler
In the last few weeks I started to use more and more the mm.cfg feature « preloadSWF » This enables you to start a SWF before any SWF launched by FlashPlayer and have much information on the launched...
View ArticleFreezing and unfreezing objects
Wow.. It’s been a long time since my last post! But don’t worry there is a lot of things I plan to talk about. So let’s start with: Freezing and unfreezing objects *Erratum* When I made all my tests,...
View ArticleThe only real Flash Builder Profiler alternative (and it’s free!)
FlashPreloadProfiler (now in Beta) is an open source multi-purpose profiler designed to help productivity and stability during development by displaying under-the-hood data of any flash app. The main...
View ArticleFlash security: Protecting against PreloadSWF (SWF Hijacking)
Finally! here is a half-answer. If you have read my last posts, you now know the power of Flash hijacking via preloadSWF. I never given a lot of feedback about how to block this attack because I didn’t...
View ArticleThe king is dead. Long live the king!
The king is dead: Yes.. today I have some bad new for you. One of the best flash performance analysis tool: FlashPreloadProfiler, is officialy dead. After a LOT of time developing this profiler for...
View ArticleUpdated the optimized Base64 library
More than two years ago, I made a blog post about how to optimized the existing Base64 libraries. This library was highly linked and used in multiple project as it’s 100% free (MIT license) A few days...
View ArticleEpic Flash memory leak track down
Have you ever had a memory instantiation problem that was impossible to track down? Here is a post that might help you with that kind of thing! Beware! This post is very long… but VERY instructive! If...
View ArticlefastSort, faster is better!
Today, Jackson Dunstan posted about how to use a profiler to get better performance in flash. For this post he decided to show how to use TheMiner… awesome! In this post he’s profiling two sorting...
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