Performance difference between debug and release builds

Check out the difference in speed between a release swf and the debug swf in the example project.

debug build outline time: ~250ms
release build outline time: ~50ms

In the above tests I set the font size to 200 and clicked the outline button.

It’s almost 5x faster! I know it’s supposed to be faster but I didn’t have numbers before. It’s supposed to be faster if you’re running in the release build of the Flash Player as well. I might test that next.

Flash Player Content Debugger 11.2.202.228
Macbook AIR 1.7GHz i5