So AS3’s got the new int data type. No floating-point mantissa stuff to worry about, these are straight-up whole numbers, and that sounds great. But I keep hearing that using ints isn’t much faster and can sometimes be slower than using Numbers. (Say, shouldn’t it be Int with a capital I?) I hear that the ECMAScript standard has rules about the int data type, that ints have to be converted to Number whenever arithmetic is performed on them. On the other hand, I hear that ints make better indices when working with arrays, and that using the int() conversion (a Top Level function), integer arithmetic is improved for some reason. Maybe it’s a syntactical reason, I have no idea.
And that’s what I’m getting at: I have no idea what to make of ints. Could someone just spell it out for me, entirely, right here? What’s the story with ints?
…Dang. That should’ve been the thread title.
