October 2008
Beginner to intermediate
491 pages
12h 20m
English
book
The ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide
by Jen deHaan, David Stiller, Darren Richardson, Rich Shupe
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Chapter 4. Exploring the Benefits of Using ActionScript 3.0
It has been said, and generally agreed, that in spite of how funny it would make a person look, two heads are better than one. The point of this adage, of course, is that collaboration can be a remarkably productive venture. Flash Player 10 promotes this ideal thanks to its two virtual machines, the software modules inside Flash Player that execute ActionScript programs. Until Flash Player 9, only a single virtual machine was necessary. It handled (and still handles) everything code-related from the very beginnings of ActionScript to the formal object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm introduced with ActionScript 2.0. The architectural changes and improvements introduced with ActionScript 3.0, however, were substantial enough in Flash Player 9 to warrant a new virtual machine specifically optimized for the new language.
This new module, named ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2), works independently of the previous player codebase. It was unveiled in a prerelease version of Flash Player 9, originally slated as Flash Player 8.5. (There was no commercial release of Flash Player 8.5; in the final public release, its version number shipped as 9.) Legacy support is still handled by the previous codebase, now renamed ActionScript Virtual Machine 1 (AVM1) and remains as a companion module inside Flash Players 9 and 10 to support backward compatibility. Meanwhile, AVM2 ushers ActionScript 3.0 into an arena of increased performance, ...
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