http://jacksondunstan.com/articles/346 Mastering AS3 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://jacksondunstan.com/articles/346/comment-page-1#comment-86 jackson Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:55:51 +0000 http://jacksondunstan.com/?p=346#comment-86 Thanks for pointing this out. I've also heard that weak dictionaries don't do well when the keys are Functions. I agree about the memory leak issues. It would sure be nice to have more control over the GC, a native weak reference class, and fewer bugs in the existing weak reference support. Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve also heard that weak dictionaries don’t do well when the keys are Functions. I agree about the memory leak issues. It would sure be nice to have more control over the GC, a native weak reference class, and fewer bugs in the existing weak reference support.

]]> http://jacksondunstan.com/articles/346/comment-page-1#comment-85 Sev Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:34:36 +0000 http://jacksondunstan.com/?p=346#comment-85 The only thing to be aware of when dealing with weak references within Flash is that the object still "lives" while in memory, even when its marked for GC. This usually is no big deal (GC will clean when it thinks it's time to do so), except for weak listeners. So these dead objects would still receive events – something that gave me a headache recently. On a side note: it's pretty funny to see you write the exactly same class I've written 1w ago only (well, apart from the naming of course). I'd love to see weak references built into the language by the way... there's just too much potential for memory leaks anywhere. The only thing to be aware of when dealing with weak references within Flash is that the object still “lives” while in memory, even when its marked for GC. This usually is no big deal (GC will clean when it thinks it’s time to do so), except for weak listeners. So these dead objects would still receive events – something that gave me a headache recently. On a side note: it’s pretty funny to see you write the exactly same class I’ve written 1w ago only (well, apart from the naming of course). I’d love to see weak references built into the language by the way… there’s just too much potential for memory leaks anywhere.

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