[Laszlo-dev] Interesting note on as3 garbage collection

[P T Withington]

> By now every developer who cares about memleaks in AS3 knows not to  
> use anonymous functions inside event handlers. Callbacks should have  
> a name (so they can be GC'd) and weak references should be used.  
> However, weak references won't totally save the day here. In AS3,  
> asynchronous objects register themselves with the Flash player when  
> they run. If one of those objects (Timer, Loader, File, DB  
> transaction) continues to be referenced by the player, it's  
> essentially unreachable to you.

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