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Asked: 2026-06-02T18:51:08+00:00

Im very curious , is there any advantage of building SWF using bytecode than

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Im very curious , is there any advantage of building SWF using bytecode than regular actionscript ?

As i read there are some ways to speed up code a little , but are there some things that as3code cannot do ?

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Please , do not focus on coding style , problems , type checks and syntax , let say ill have external SWF with 1 class written in bytecode and now i like to know what benefits i can get from lower level coding.

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    The Flash compiler doesn’t use all the opcodes available in the Flash player so, in theory, you can indeed get some performance increase by “manually” writing opcodes.

    For example, the Haxe compiler can make use of the Alchemy OpCodes and provide a boost of performance compared to Flash:

    Access Alchemy OpCodes

    There are OpCodes for memory allocation hidden in the SWF player which are used by Adobe Alchemy. Haxe has the ability to access them giving you low level memory access which can allow HUGE speed increases.

    http://haxe.org/doc/why

    I don’t know how safe it is to use these opcodes though. Since they are not supported by the official Flash compiler, they might be dropped in a future release of the Flash Player.

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