Jul 13, 2006 - Performance testing Equality Operations in AS3 Null vs Null Object - How the new AVM Makes a difference When evaluating for equality, is it better to use the null value directly or create a null object? Werner Sharp from Adobe provides the following analysis: var someInstance:Object = new Object(); var st = getTimer(); someInstance.foo = function() { } for (var i:int = 0; i <