We all know that Flash uses only reference counting to do garbage collection. So, we have come to the decision that it is a wise idea to take special care to dispose circular references as these tend to hang around a lot. In ActionScript, take care that you are cleaning up external references before destroying or unloading movieclips. Our internal team usually have a dispose method in most of the objects that nulls external references before hand.
// for movieclip subclasses
public function dispose ():Void
{
externalRef = null;
this.removeMovieClip ();
};
//
// for other class instances use something like
myObject.dispose ();
myObject = null;
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Brajeshwar posted this article
on Wed, Jun 29th, 2005 at 6:48 pm
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Do you have any AS examples that generate garbage waiting to be collected in flash player?
Thanks,
Kevin
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