{"id":678,"date":"2008-06-15T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2008-06-15T17:35:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T16:35:02","slug":"quick-code-performance-test-for-flash-vs-silverlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/678-quick-code-performance-test-for-flash-vs-silverlight.html","title":{"rendered":"Quick code performance test for Flash vs Silverlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/primetest\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Quick performance test<\/a> for Flash vs Silverlight. This just counts prime numbers and doesn\u2019t touch graphics or multimedia. See <a href=\"http:\/\/bubblemark.com\/\">Bubblemark<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftymind.com\/2008\/05\/22\/introducing-guimark-an-ria-benchmark-for-flex-silverlight-html-and-more\/\">GUIMark<\/a> for some more comprehensive tests; I just put this one together to satisfy my own curiosity. More details, and the code to scrutinize, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?page_id=677\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t take this too seriously. I may have messed up the test; it is only one small aspect of performance; and there are lots of other factors to think about. I just find this sort of thing interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Note that both Flash and Silverlight have just-in-time compilers that dramatically speed this type of code.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/countprimes.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Comments are welcome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?page_id=677\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7285edd7-0f19-492b-89e0-c0499d324a87\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/flash\" rel=\"tag\">flash<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/silverlight\" rel=\"tag\">silverlight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/performance\" rel=\"tag\">performance<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick performance test for Flash vs Silverlight. This just counts prime numbers and doesn\u2019t touch graphics or multimedia. See Bubblemark and GUIMark for some more comprehensive tests; I just put this one together to satisfy my own curiosity. More details, and the code to scrutinize, here. Please don\u2019t take this too seriously. I may have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/678-quick-code-performance-test-for-flash-vs-silverlight.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quick code performance test for Flash vs Silverlight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,77,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","category-silverlight","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}