FITC Toronto 2009

2009-04-25 00:00:00 2009-04-29 00:00:00 America/Toronto FITC Toronto 2009 Now in its 8th year, FITC Toronto is one of the largest and longest running events of its kind in the world. Toronto FITC Toronto

Presentation

Flash Player Internals v2

April 27 2009, 12:10 - 1:10pm Room: Carmichael/Jackson

Web Dev

Overview

  • Versioning
  • Player Penetration
  • Player Overview
  • VMs, Basic AS3 Optimization
  • FTE (Flash Text Engine
    • Now we have layout options!
      • TextField
      • FTE
    • And rendering options
      • Saffron – now faster & improved
      • CFF
    • An imperfect collision of technologies.
  • Practical Garbage Collection
    • Overview
    • Loader.unloadAndStop()
      • what it does…
      • …and doesn’t do
  • GPU Acceleration
    • Fullscreen
    • Direct
    • GPU Compositing
      • Theory
      • How to use
      • Driver version checking
      • Slow rollout
  • PixelBender
    • Now the renderer is programmable too!
    • Injects code into the rendering pipeline
    • Can be highly parallel
  • 2.5D
    • Integrated into display list
    • Z is render only, not real depth
    • But correct perspective rendering is great!
    • Pixel coordinate fun
  • Drawing API 2
    • Same renderer
    • Faster data structures
    • Floating point renderer
    • 2.5D Goodness
  • Search Player
    • Current approaches to indexing SWF files are limited
    • How it works
    • What you (don’t) have to do.
    • Best Practices.