I've spent hours googling and referenced all the livedocs but can find no objective comparison between the 2 following methods to load images
1 Loader with loaderContext=ImageDecodingPolicy.ON_LOAD
as per this example
http://www.bytearray.org/?p=2931
and
2 URLLoader using URLLoaderDataFormat.BINARY and Loader.loadBytes
Could anyone possibly shed some insight as to which is better-quicker?