the big difference is that the bytecode parser doesn’t need to parse method bodies, so that already made a big difference in loading times.
I’m sure there’s more areas for improvement to be found, but for now I’m satisfied. Before Spring Actionscript 1.0 is released there will be an official release of a whole bunch of as3commons updates, by then a proper project webpage will be up as well with some better code examples and stuff.

cheers,

Roland

I’ve finished most of the bytecode based reflection bits and pieces, the project isn’t officialy available on the as3commons site yet, but you can browser the sources over here:

http://code.google.com/p/as3-commons/source/browse/#svn/trunk/as3-commons-bytecode

To generate a cache of bytecode reflection you can use this:

ByteCodeType.fromLoader(loader:LoaderInfo):void;

Parsing the entire Flex framework and all of its corresponding RSLs takes about 6 seconds in the debug player, in the release player its under 2 seconds.

But I don’t think full bytecode reflection is necessary for framework classes, so with efficiency in mind I would always use a combination of normal reflection and bytecode reflection.

cheers,

Roland