What is the display list in Flash 10? Array? Linked list?

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Published on 2010-04-26T17:27:55Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 18:13 UTC
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I'm working on a game that has many elements on stage, so I'm looking to optimize my loops. I know that Vector is faster than looping an array, but I'm also in some cases using:

while (i < numChildren)
    getChildAt(i)

...to update sprites.

My question is when I use getChildAt, is that accessing an Array or Vector or linked list or other? Should I instead store references to my objects in a Vector and loop through that instead?

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