Optimizing your code is very important because we can gain performance increase with very little costs, but we have to remember that the most important think for a Developer is to easily understand his code. Bellow I post some techniques to improve the performance of your AS3 code, remember if some of those shortcuts are not easily readable for you maybe it’s not the time to use them. For example I wont use the strange (for me) if statement structure ‘? : ;’ because each time I see it I have to think how this actually work, anyway here are some tips: