Comments are not compiled into the SWF; no source code is. The debug version of the SWF has opcodes which have file paths and line numbers. So there is a tiny effect from comments affecting the line numbers (possibly to have more digits) which can then change the SWF compression. But this is insignificant.
Names like getVideoPlayer only appear once in the SWF (in the "constant pool") no matter how many times you call this method, but the constant pool can still be sizable. A SWF obfuscator would presumably shorten the names (as well as make them unreadable), but Adobe haven't developed one and I'm not sure 3rd-party ones are available for Player 9 SWFs. - Gordon ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Hanson Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 10:40 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] remove comments on compile - strip comments - optimize SWF size - reduce size Is there a way to remove comments or strip comments out of the AS3 code during compiler preprocessing? I have noticed that the SWF size is larger if comments are left in. It is not a huge amount of added size, but it can add up to 10-20 KB for a large project. I am working on an AS3 project (not mxml) and I am trying to get the final size down to less then 40KB. I am looking for a way to remove comments to make the SWF smaller. I would also like to run a tool that will shorten all the class, property, and method names. I could go in and manually optimize the code, but it makes development much harder when you have no comments and you methods are named gvp() gvpl() instead of getVideoPlayer() and getVideoPlaylist(). I would much rather find a precompile process of some kind. Any ideas? Thanks --jason key words: remove comments on compile strip comments optimize SWF size reduce size file size
