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• 4 items to check if a Flex 4 Application is leaking memory !

  505 readersI have been working with Flash Builder profiler for past few months. After looking at few applications and memory leaks in them I came up with following 4 items which can cause a Flex application to leak memory. If you don't like to read lot of text the gist is to use weak references where

• The flash.sampler.* API and the Sample object

  435 readersThe flash.sampler.* package gives you access to the same profiling data via AS3 that FlashBuilder uses for it's profiler. It's a very useful API for performance and memory profiling, offering enhanced introspection tools, more granular timing, method invocation counts, and of course invocation sampling. I thought I'd write up a quick post about the API

• Flash Builder Profiler – Fixing Memory Leak on ExternalInterface

  362 readersOne of the most common problems with Flash applications are memory leaks, programming flaws that cause Flash Player to loose access to memory that it could recycle otherwise.  In the mobile space it’s crucial to understand memory management to get the most out of the Flash Player, and ultimately to ensure a smooth ride for

• ColdFusion Builder and FlashBuilder

  262 readersWell they are finally released!I've been using the Betas for quite some time and really enjoying both products. We are actually just about to release a major piece of software written fully in Flex 4 and the upgrade from the Beta to the FINAL version has been really smooth ( actually nothing so far went

• Learning Flex – Lesson 26, The Basics of Memory Management and Performance

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• Lightweight AS2 Flash Lite framework

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• Timing it right

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• Flash Player 10.1 Beta 3 and (AS3) Memory Monitoring Component

  752 readersI noticed that along with the recently announced Flash Player 10.1 Beta 3 on Adobe Labs, there is also a new memory component provided by Adobe that can be used for mobile and device memory usage testing (when you are working with a device supporting 10.1). Memory Monitoring Component This component contains an ActionScript 3.0

• Memory Performance in the Land of References

  272 readersOver the past few years I have seem my share of memory related issues in working with Flash Player and AIR. In every case, the issue always boils down to reference handling in that somehow code was written (typically innocently) that holds a reference to an object indefinitely. In all systems with a garbage collector