Friday, February 22, 2008

I was at Keith Peter's blog reading stuff and saw the localConnection thing to force gc in Flash. I then saw something interesting:

In AIR, although not in Flash, you can use

System.gc()

to trigger garbage collection. It should still be called twice in a row, however, if you want everything possible to be collected immediately.

Oliver Goldman | Adobe AIR Engineering

That's extremely useful information. It might be cool to see an actual method in AS3 that can force gc instead of using the localConnection hack

new LocalConnection().connect('foo');
new LocalConnection().connect('foo');

Very useful information to have. In AS3 and also AIR-specific cases. Nice work Grant Skinner, Keith Peters, and the AIR team.

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