AS3 Memory management when instantiating extended classes
- by araid
I'm developing an AS3 application which has some memory leaks I can't find, so I'd like to ask some newbie questions about memory management.
Imagine I have a class named BaseClass, and some classes that extend this one, such as ClassA, ClassB, etc.
I declare a variable:
myBaseClass:BaseClass = new ClassA();
After a while, I use it to instantiate a new object:
myBaseClass = new ClassB();
some time after
myBaseClass = new ClassC();
and the same thing keeps happening every x millis, triggered by a timer.
Is there any memory problem here? Are the unused instances correctly deleted by the garbage collector?
Thanks!
