Re: [FlexJS] empty constructors in SDK

[Josh Tynjala <jo...@gmail.com>]

I don't think the empty constructors will have a performance impact. The
way we create classes in JavaScript, a constructor is required because
that's where the prototype is stored, so it will be generated anyway. In
SWF, I believe I remember reading that it's similar: bytecode is still
generated by the compiler when the constructor is omitted.

- Josh

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We seem to have a number of empty constructors in the SDK. Is there any
> reason for this as? Performance wise there’s going to be a cost with this.
>
> On the other hand we also have a number of constructors that are not light
> weight. AS doesn’t JIT code in constructors so best practice is to move the
> code to a another method and call it from the constructor. Any reason this
> isn’t being done?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin