Comments on: Tonypa Crunches Your Swf http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/2009/02/09/tonypa-crunches-your-swf/ The art, science and business of independent game development Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:06:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Richard Davey http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/2009/02/09/tonypa-crunches-your-swf/comment-page-1/#comment-912 Richard Davey Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:36:37 +0000 http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/?p=244#comment-912 <p>Sorry just wanted to add - the advice only works for un-typing ints (and probably Numbers and Booleans too). Un-typing TextFields or Bitmaps actually increases AS byte size!</p> Sorry just wanted to add – the advice only works for un-typing ints (and probably Numbers and Booleans too). Un-typing TextFields or Bitmaps actually increases AS byte size!

]]> By: Richard Davey http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/2009/02/09/tonypa-crunches-your-swf/comment-page-1/#comment-911 Richard Davey Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:31:32 +0000 http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/?p=244#comment-911 <p>Just like to add one thing about the un-typed variables suggestion: If they are global class vars then you need to un-type <em>all</em> vars of the same type for it to work, otherwise in my testing you actually add bytes to your SWF. For example if you have 6 different "ints" and only un-type 5 of them, the final SWF will be larger! Not sure what is going on with that, but it consistently worked out that way in my tests. Un-typing ALL vars of the same type resulted in 1 byte saved (that's 1 byte overall, not 1 byte per var).</p> Just like to add one thing about the un-typed variables suggestion: If they are global class vars then you need to un-type all vars of the same type for it to work, otherwise in my testing you actually add bytes to your SWF. For example if you have 6 different “ints” and only un-type 5 of them, the final SWF will be larger! Not sure what is going on with that, but it consistently worked out that way in my tests. Un-typing ALL vars of the same type resulted in 1 byte saved (that’s 1 byte overall, not 1 byte per var).

]]> By: FreelanceFlashGames http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/2009/02/09/tonypa-crunches-your-swf/comment-page-1/#comment-644 FreelanceFlashGames Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:16:45 +0000 http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/?p=244#comment-644 <p>This is some interesting stuff. I didn't know embeddable fonts could take up so much memory. I won't be participating in the contest, but it should be interesting to see what games developers can come up with.</p> This is some interesting stuff. I didn’t know embeddable fonts could take up so much memory. I won’t be participating in the contest, but it should be interesting to see what games developers can come up with.

]]> By: ickydime http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/2009/02/09/tonypa-crunches-your-swf/comment-page-1/#comment-638 ickydime Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:34:18 +0000 http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/?p=244#comment-638 <p>Wow, would never have guessed that an untyped variable would take up less memory. Interesting...</p> <p>And I agree, TonyPa's site was a huge inspiration when I was in college. I spent hours looking over the Tutorials there as well as from Strille and eventually made an Isometric game to use as my portfolio... good memories.</p> Wow, would never have guessed that an untyped variable would take up less memory. Interesting…

And I agree, TonyPa’s site was a huge inspiration when I was in college. I spent hours looking over the Tutorials there as well as from Strille and eventually made an Isometric game to use as my portfolio… good memories.

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