Some days ago I was writing a tween engine for our library here at Hobnox and when I was comparing it with the other ones out there which are quiet popular (Tweener, TweenLite) I was pretty surprised that my engine was performing about 10fps faster than TweenLite when tweening 1000 objects. It was 40fps for me, 28fps for TweenLite and 14fps for Tweener. It is not only faster but the memory usage is constant and small — on a Mac it was constant 11mb for my engine versus up to 22mb for TweenLite for instance.
Since I am currently not allowed to post the source-codes I want to talk a little bit about the ideas behind the engine.
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