Which is faster today, “as3.0” or “js”?
It is said that a long time ago, the execution speed of “js” was very slow,
Does it seem that the execution speed of “js” has improved after the release of “v8”?
So which is faster today, “JS” or “AS3.0 Air”?
There was indeed a time when AS3 was almost always faster than JS.
Jackson Dunstan used to explore the performance characteristics of AS3 a lot. He did some comparisons of AS3 vs JS in various browsers. Here’s his earliest test from 2009:
He followed up a couple of times in 2011 to show that browsers were getting closer:
By 2013, performance of JS in browsers was pretty comparable to AS3.
I don’t think he tested any more after November 2013.
If I had to make a bet with real money, I’d wager that JS in all modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) is faster than AS3 today. They’ve been working to improve performance of JS for the last 13 years, while the performance of the AS3 virtual machine has likely remained pretty constant.
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