@Robin – True, optimization can be evil (such if you are optimization to one version of a compiler that can change and kill your app performance in a version). But in most cases starting with an efficient base is not really evil optimization at all. Not many tricks there. I think the optimization is evil thing was from the past a bit in that hardware was really expensive and coders would take advantage of a compiler switch or some quirk that sped things up but later causes issues when that optimization maybe failed. Compiling in essence is optimization so not all optimization is evil, just the kind that might only be beneficial for the life of a glitch.

This is a common thing you hear, but imo that is utter bs. Obfuscation is evil, but optimization is a good thing. Obviously in some situations one leads to another, but most of the time not. Performance always matters, nowhere more so than on the flash player.