[AS3] sortOn question.

[Valaran]

Array.sortOn(); How is this sort performed, and how does it differ from just doing a simple loop through the array and sort based on that? Let's imagine I didn't think of this function while developing something, and I happened to sort things by looping through it, would there be any significant difference on switching my ugly loop to this?

Thank you.

[ViktorHesselbom]

Depending on how your loop operates it could be faster or slower. It will look cleaner though.

Are you also asking how to use it? Just specify a property to sort by sortOn ("name"); sortOn ("y", Array.NUMERIC);

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Array.html#sortOn()

[Valaran]

No, I wasn't asking how to use it, but thanks for the rest of the reply, I'll do some testing on it.