----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Sacks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flash Coders List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Destructors and Garbage Collection ...
It's a dangerous business removing instances when there are still
references to them. Check out as3 weak references.
So dangerous that you can't do it. ;)
LOL, absolutely.
I once worked as a developer using C++ on a project for two years. Our
biggest problem was dangling references to objects that were temporaries and
reused. So I think that Actionscript devlopers sometimes have rose tinted
glasses when looking at forced garbage collection.
Mind you, I'm not sure very many actionscript developers have worked for two
years on a project.. ;-)
The Flash 10 Player has a function to force the GC to run, btw.
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