GPU Rendering on mobile

I've been playing around with the Air 3.2 RC release the last week or so and since it adds GPU support for mobile devices, I was wondering if there was any recommended way to take advantage of it with the Flash Maps API on mobile. I've seen examples using Stage3D with open mapquest tiles which creates a really smooth interface, but that isn't going to integrate with the licensed flash maps API. The only other option I can think of is to use the cacheAsBitmap and cacheAsBitmapMatrix attributes on each loaded mapquest tile, I figured I would see if there is already a preferred method for doing this before I spend time experimenting to see if I can find a way to achieve this. Performance on mobile isn't too bad the way things are, but it doesn't seem to take much extra logic in the application to cause the map manipulation to become unusable, such as loading a bunch of features for display on the map (I realize that I could implement some sort of faux Actionscript threading, since it isn't supported natively) but I was hoping to find some other ways to mitigate the issue temporarily until I have the time to go back and optimize code to execute in very small chunks so that the UI has a chance to breathe. I had originally hoped that there was a way to perform logic in an event, such as an asynchronous even which would be handled behind the scenes in a non-UI thread like javascript seems to do. That doesn't seem to be the case though.

Also, I have seen the map completely become unresponsive in my app (in Android and IOS), as well as the sample mobile app on IOS. It seems to happen sometimes when a zoom is performed. It's very intermittent, but it seems to happen when either the app is executing some additional logic, or a background task on the mobile device kicks in to perform some work. The rest of the app will quickly become responsive again, but the map will be stuck in the middle of a zoom transition and doesn't seem to recover..

Thanks for any advice you can give me.

Ryan

Thanks for the information Ryan. I will forward this on to the Flash team.