anybody have any ideas?
this is still shaking my boots.
thanks :)
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:53 PM, ktu <ktu_fl...@cataclysmicrewind.com>wrote:
> hey all!
>
> I'm faced with an interesting question.
>
> in my codebase, we made the decision to use a few singletons. to implement
> those singletons we used the static const trick:
>
> package com.example {
> public static const API:AppAPI = new AppAPI();
> }
>
> package com.example {
> public class AppAPI {
> public function AppAPI () {
> if (API) throw new Error();
> }
> }
>
> this works fine in the normal environment we run in. that is, we run in a
> scheduler system that loads the flash player, runs our swf, then shuts down
> the flash player, doing that over and over again based off the schedule of
> content. the problem now is that a new client uses a scheduler that is
> built on AIR, so the flash player instance never shuts down. whenever our
> app comes up in the scheduler, memory jumps and never goes down causing the
> AIR app to crash every couple of hours. If, they load my application only
> once, and leave it running, it lasts for days without any major memory
> leaks.
>
> any idea how i could test whether GC does pick this up or could? or any
> known issues with this trick and GC? maybe you just have tricks in general
> to finding out what GC isn't getting?
>
> thanks!!!
>
> --
> Ktu;
>
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