I was digging in my archives when I came across this POC (Proof of Concept) I did last year …

It would make for a nice simple Flash Player 8 performance test … basically it just reads an XML file containing 10,000 (or more) “nodes” with random x,y coorindates and then populates that list of nodes using 3 different methods … there are 2 passes, one to draw the points and a 2nd pass to colorize them based on xml attributes (this was an explicit requirement for the POC) … the goal is to do it in the fastest way possible (without any preprocessing).

One method is tuned for user experience and two others for performance metrics … if you have a solution that can get it done in under 60 seconds (on a P4 with 1gig of memory) without any kind of preprocessing I’d love to hear it (my methods use intervals, dividing up loops, attaching movieclips) … your solution should take in an XML file containing 10,000 or greater nodes.

Anyways, if you have a flashplayer 8 beta (and no it’s not available for download. ONLY exclusive beta testers have it … and no I don’t have it yet) give this test a whirl and see the benchmarks.

NOTE: If you have FP 6 or FP7 then you’re likely to get a script timeout error when running the POC within your browser … the version posted I didn’t tweak with FLASM.

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