[Laszlo-dev] Need your thoughts on [#LPP-8351] SWF9: improvement destroy-time for sprite - OpenLaszlo Jira

[Max Carlson]

Makes sense to me.  I'm not sure why you'd want to destroy a sprite/view 
and not destroy its children...

P T Withington wrote:
> André has a suggestion that speeds up destroy in swf9.  I made a comment 
> that this might be a good platform-wide optimization, but it would 
> change the contract of LzSprite/destroy.  What are your thoughts?
> 
>> Perhaps this is a general optimization that should be moved out of the 
>> kernel to LzView and make the contract of LzSprite#destroy to destroy 
>> the sprite and all its children in the most efficient manner? This 
>> would rely on sprites having a 1-1 correspondence to views and sprites 
>> being able to find all their children (if their children are not 
>> implicitly destroyed, but is that not the case for DHTML too?) The 
>> point would be that there would be a simpler contract between the LFC 
>> and the kernel, the kernel would not have to look back at the LFC state.
> 
> [[#LPP-8351] SWF9: improvement destroy-time for sprite - OpenLaszlo 
> Jira](http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-8351)

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Max Carlson
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