I just wrapped up a 12hrs. coding session at work. We're creating an application that provides ROI (return on investment) calculations to prospective technology clients. Its standard practice these days to sell software based on value even though selling on features is a heck of a lot more fun, which is where the ROI calc. comes in handy.
Behind the calculator's UI, there are a plethora of events being generated to update the key benefits used by the buyer. As we've continued to work on larger calculators (more benefits), the processing time in AIR has lagged even when the Flex seems to run unhindered. So tonight I did a little testing to see how significant the difference was, I was shocked to learn that AIR executed the same functions as the Flex application at a speed ~ 54% slower. The "native" application is running slower?!? Even more bizarre, the execution time goes back to normal when I load a secondary SWF inside the AIR application to handle the calculations. Very weird and disheartening to say the least. I don't have the tests at home otherwise I'd post them but if anyone has a reason for this discrepancy. Do tell.
You can expect the source for my tests tomorrow. Until then, you might want to think about creating a wrapper for calling functions w/in a SWFLoader. Here's a useful article about how to make calls from the child app. to the parent.
Cheers,
Todd
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