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Flash has been a long-standing industry standard for interactive web content. Still, it's also known for being damn slow and inefficient. So in the same vein that knowing ASM will help you write better C++, knowing FLASM will improve your actionscript.

Does anyone know any good resource for learning this, or should I just disassemble and assemble until I get it?

Thank you.

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    If written following best-practices, it's definitely not slow and inefficient. It's like anything, a hammer does not a carpenter make. – jpea Mar 03 '11 at 20:16
  • JPEA, please see: http://jpauclair.net/2010/03/15/flash-asm/ If you think the recommended optimization here ought to be "best practices"... – The Roll Mar 03 '11 at 20:44
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    my apologies - I thought this was a troll post, considering the beating Flash takes with people who hate unoptimized banner ads - I didn't realize you'd actually get into the meat n' potatoes of it :) – jpea Mar 03 '11 at 20:50
  • Unoptimized banner ads are indeed the scourge of all browsers that use Flash without some form of adblock. ("Hey I have over 10 tabs open." <- You're screwed.) But yeah, Flash has issues and needs some awkward hand-holding sometimes, so I'm asking to get into the details. :-) – The Roll Mar 03 '11 at 21:10
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    Do you know the AVM2 Overview? http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/actionscript/articles/avm2overview.pdf I think it's a good place to start. – weltraumpirat Mar 03 '11 at 22:23
  • Hey, why not post it as an answer? You'd get points. Anyway, thanks. – The Roll Mar 04 '11 at 01:13

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Do you know the AVM2 Overview? I think it's a good place to start.

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