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The charts below (created with FlexJS Chart package) show the difference between the optimized (orange and sky) and and regular (red and blue) chart chart components; shorter bars are faster. The performance data were gather from two FlexJS LineCharts of a sine wave: one with optimized components and one without. The charts used BoxItemRenderers for each point plotted along with a LineSegmentItemRenderer to display the line connecting the points. The vertical axis is the average of ten runs in milliseconds.
source: flex-asjs/examples/ChartExample using TestModel and SpeedResultsView.
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It is yet to be seen if the non-optimized chart components actually offer any advantage over the non-optimized versions; if that turns out to be true, it may not be worth while to keep the non-optimized versions.
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