Comments on: Kick starting the garbage collector in Actionscript 3 with AIR http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/ Hacking away at UI development Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:38:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Newtriks Flex + Flash Development » Blog Archive » Garbage Collection in a MultiCore Modular Pipes Application http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-2552 Newtriks Flex + Flash Development » Blog Archive » Garbage Collection in a MultiCore Modular Pipes Application Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:30:17 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-2552 [...] definition of a clean up method in the IPipeAwareModule Interface and thanks to Sean Christmanns blog post on [...] […] definition of a clean up method in the IPipeAwareModule Interface and thanks to Sean Christmanns blog post on […]

]]> By: Markus Kohler http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-1021 Markus Kohler Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:41:06 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-1021 Hi, This all sounds to me that maybe Java still as a chance to come back as soon as people realize, that Flex/Air is not yet ready for high performance long running desktop applications. Check my blogs at http://kohlerm.blogspot.com/ for how easy it is in Java to find memory consumption problems. Regards, Markus Hi,
This all sounds to me that maybe Java still as a chance to come back as soon as people realize, that Flex/Air is not yet ready for high performance long running desktop applications.

Check my blogs at http://kohlerm.blogspot.com/ for how easy it is in Java to find memory consumption problems.

Regards,
Markus

]]> By: Sean Christmann http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-437 Sean Christmann Tue, 13 May 2008 22:43:30 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-437 Bob, I haven't seen that app before but it looks interesting. The best strategy I could offer for keeping memory low for that app would be to use a static number of Loaders and reuse them for new image requests. Bob, I haven’t seen that app before but it looks interesting. The best strategy I could offer for keeping memory low for that app would be to use a static number of Loaders and reuse them for new image requests.

]]> By: Bob http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-326 Bob Thu, 08 May 2008 06:22:17 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-326 Hi Sean, I got the same problem with releasing memory in flash, thanks a lot for sharing your experience to confirm my question that memory issue still hanging in Flex3. Have you see google map in flash version ? website: http://www.flashearth.com/ This website could add/release memory by navigating the map, but the problem I saw memory still can not release totally from the beginning... Hi Sean,

I got the same problem with releasing memory in flash, thanks a lot for sharing your experience to confirm my question that memory issue still hanging in Flex3.

Have you see google map in flash version ?
website: http://www.flashearth.com/

This website could add/release memory by navigating the map, but the problem I saw memory still can not release totally from the beginning…

]]> By: A Peek into the AS3 and AVM2 Virtual Machine and ‘Elastic Racetrack’ « [ draw.logic ] http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-95 A Peek into the AS3 and AVM2 Virtual Machine and ‘Elastic Racetrack’ « [ draw.logic ] Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:32:28 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-95 [...] out that and more at Craftymind like some other good stuff like garbage collection in AIR with actionscript 3 (as3) and serializing classes to files in AIR with [...] […] out that and more at Craftymind like some other good stuff like garbage collection in AIR with actionscript 3 (as3) and serializing classes to files in AIR with […]

]]> By: Maz http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-84 Maz Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:02:03 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-84 Hi Sean, Very nice feedback on your performance experience with eBay Desktop. I was actually looking for something like this, thanks. You are totally right, Flex wasn't initially memory oriented, Flash 9 brought performance, not memory rationals. The AIR apps' physionomy / lifecycle are very different from their browser counterpart. I am even starting to think that AIR will never see apps expected to run for hours before shutdown. I ran all major AIR apps : ADC desktop, Google Analytics.. all are very hungry. It is also the case of my application : http://labs.businessobjects.com/biwidget, a Widget Engine supposed to start and close with the OS. Even after cleaning, this app will never last more than 5 hours... Do you have any bug number where we could bring our vote ? That's a very serious bug that should be adressed in AIR 2.0 / Flex 4.0. {Maz} Hi Sean,

Very nice feedback on your performance experience with eBay Desktop. I was actually looking for something like this, thanks.

You are totally right, Flex wasn’t initially memory oriented, Flash 9 brought performance, not memory rationals. The AIR apps’ physionomy / lifecycle are very different from their browser counterpart. I am even starting to think that AIR will never see apps expected to run for hours before shutdown. I ran all major AIR apps : ADC desktop, Google Analytics.. all are very hungry.
It is also the case of my application : http://labs.businessobjects.com/biwidget, a Widget Engine supposed to start and close with the OS. Even after cleaning, this app will never last more than 5 hours…

Do you have any bug number where we could bring our vote ?
That’s a very serious bug that should be adressed in AIR 2.0 / Flex 4.0.

{Maz}

]]> By: Tom Nussbaumer http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-63 Tom Nussbaumer Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:43:08 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-63 That explains most of the effects I'm struggling with. Thank you for sharing! That explains most of the effects I’m struggling with. Thank you for sharing!

]]> By: Blog about Sample Collectors » Blog Archive » Fast Thursday links http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-42 Blog about Sample Collectors » Blog Archive » Fast Thursday links Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:45:52 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-42 [...] http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/You can actually test this for yourself by downloading a sample Flex 3 project and observing the effects. What I’ve learned from Adobe is that the player ends up fragmenting memory quite a bit. It probably goes back to the heart of the … [...] […] http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/You can actually test this for yourself by downloading a sample Flex 3 project and observing the effects. What I’ve learned from Adobe is that the player ends up fragmenting memory quite a bit. It probably goes back to the heart of the … […]

]]> By: Sean Christmann http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-41 Sean Christmann Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:26:20 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-41 Yeah system tray mode made it into the 1.0 product. It was really important that we include it in the launch feature set so now the team is working on lowering the overall memory footprint by finding better ways to reuse DisplayObjects. Yeah system tray mode made it into the 1.0 product. It was really important that we include it in the launch feature set so now the team is working on lowering the overall memory footprint by finding better ways to reuse DisplayObjects.

]]> By: Bjorn Schultheiss http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-40 Bjorn Schultheiss Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:21:50 +0000 http://www.craftymind.com/2008/04/09/kick-starting-the-garbage-collector-in-actionscript-3-with-air/#comment-40 Interesting read.. Those last 2 months must have been painful.. Have you still included the system tray functionality, in light of the problems with not being able to manage rendering memory ? Interesting read..
Those last 2 months must have been painful..

Have you still included the system tray functionality, in light of the problems with not being able to manage rendering memory ?

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