Interesting. I thought we got all of the leaks out of binding. Do you know what actually had to get cleaned to clean up the memory?
-Alex On 11/26/13 7:24 AM, "Marcus Wilkinson" <wilkinsonmar...@gmail.com> wrote: >So just to follow up. I hacked up the UIComponentCleaner so that is will >work with IVisualElementContainers. The code is far from perfect, but it >seems to work for now: >http://pastebin.com/cxcSWGNK > >I intend to do a cleaner version of this when I have time and to host it >in >GitHub, but i'm just using pastebin for now. >Note, that patching the following files is required: > > > - mx.binding::FunctionReturnWatcher - Change the private "document", > "parameterFunction", "parentObj" and "functionGetter" properties to > properties to public scope. > - mx.binding::PropertyWatcher - Change the private "parentObj" Object > and protected "propertyGetter" Function properties to public scope. > - mx.binding::RepeaterComponentWatcher - Change the private "clones" >Array > property to public scope. > - mx.binding::Watcher - Change the protected "listeners" and "children" > - Array properties to public scope. > >Hope someone finds this useful, > >Marcus > > >On 26 November 2013 13:22, Marcus Wilkinson ><wilkinsonmar...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> So we have a tabbed application where a memory leak of about 5MB doesn't >> seem to be collected properly. I am looking for an easy way out to help >>out >> the GC. After using the flash builder profiler it seems that lots of >> bindings amongst visual components and other things are still hanging >> around after the tab is closed. All of these things belonged to the tab >>but >> as far as I am aware, there are no other references to the original >>view. >> >> I understand that nulling out references can help the garbage collector >> identify which objects can be collected since it doesn't need to >>consider >> one large 'island' before it can collect. >> >> I found this tool which looks like it has potential, but unfortunately >>is >> specific to Flex 3: >> >> >>https://code.google.com/p/flex-uicomponent-cleaner-and-gc-initiator/sourc >>e/browse/trunk/com/tommyb/util/gc/UIComponentCleaner.as >> >> Does anyone know of or have anything like this for Flex 4? >> >> Marcus >>
