This feels like comparing apple and oranges. Can you provide a bit
more information about the complexity of your graphics calls and how
you're able to consider them as replacements to move operations?
The little test I just ran seems to show that graphics operations are
faster than calls to move. This isn't all that surprising as
UIComponent.move has some conditionals and dispatches an event. Of
course, my test doesn't account for the actual rendering of anything
-- just the time it takes to execute the instructions to tell Flash
Player how to render.
var d:Number = getTimer();
var num:Number = 100000;
var a:Number;
for(a = 0; a < num; a++)
{
button.move(Math.random() * 500,Math.random() * 500);
}
trace((getTimer() - d)) // Outputs ~1719
d = getTimer();
for(a = 0; a < num; a++)
{
graphics.clear();
graphics.lineStyle(1,0);
graphics.drawRect(0,0,Math.random() * 500,Math.random() * 500);
}
trace((getTimer() - d)) // Outputs ~257
