i’ve been reading that XML/E4X is very slow with AVM2 / ActionScript 3.
when supplying an application with XML data, is it always generally a better idea to parse the XML object into an array of objects to call rather than using E4X with the stock XML data?
Aside from the performance issue, it would be a good idea to decouple your application from the data source.
Let’s say , for example, that you’d like to use JSON in the future… It’d be more flexible to pass the XML data to an Object and manipulate your data from that Object , rather than accessing the XML directly.