speed comparison between DTS and non-DTS Flash

[Colin Holgate]

While trying to make Flash go wrong, I tried timing DTS versus 
non-DTS. I was using a Flash movie that has an extreme amount of 
curves (206 frame animation that has no sounds, no bitmaps, just 
curves, and yet is 3.7 MB). I set the Flash member to be lock-step, 
and set the Director movie to 999 fps. I spread the Flash sprite out 
to 206 frames in the score, and put a "put the timer, starttimer, go 
1" script at the end.

The time for the 206 frames DTS was 680 ticks for high quality and 
380 ticks for low quality. Non-DTS was 740 and 450. As I mentioned, 
it's a demanding animation, which should cause the most difference 
between DTS and non-DTS. Even with this case the performance 
difference was only in the 10-15% range, which may not be enough gain 
if you have to jump through hoops to work around DTS issues.

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