AS3 GarbageCollection Utility
The below class serves as Garbage Collection utility for AS3. You can use it to prevent your applications from memory leakage.
package{
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.system.System;
import flash.utils.Timer;
public class GCUtil {
private var _timer:Timer;
public function GCUtil(interval_sec:uint = 60) {
_timer = new Timer(interval_sec*1000);
startGC(interval_sec);
}
public static function doGC():void {
System.gc();
}
public function startGC(interval_sec:uint):void {
if (interval_sec > 0) {
_timer.delay = interval_sec*1000;
if (!_timer.running) {
_timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, handleTimer);
_timer.start();
}
} else {
stopGC();
}
}
public function stopGC():void {
if (!_timer.running) {
_timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, handleTimer);
_timer.stop();
_timer.delay = 0;
}
}
private function handleTimer(te:TimerEvent):void {
doGC();
}
}
}
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