Check this out for additional info on FP8 garbage collection (GC) system. http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/09/garbage-collection-in-flash-player-8.html
> Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:47:48 +1200 > From: Nick Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [osflash] Monitoring Flash memory usage > To: Open Source Flash Mailing List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > I've been developing a desktop app with flash player 7 that relies on > XML for remote method invocation, and I noticed that it was extremely > demanding on memory. To track usage I just used Task Manager with > memory usage and VM usage turned on. A typical method call that > returned a bunch of products would use about 2-3mb once the XML had been > turned into client side objects. Even worse, the player would never > free the memory used by the XML object. I think you have to be very > careful with scope chains which can cause objects to hang around in the > VM a lot longer that you would guess. If you search this list you'll > find some posts where it was talked about. Try googling it - some one > wrote a very good article on how scope chains work, and how they can > cause objects to not be garbage collected. > Flash Player 8 is incredibly more efficient with memory, and even solved > the memory leak I had (It looked like something to do with XML not > belonging to the stage - never could pin it down) Obviously, that is > not much use to you. _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
