ohsomuchwork » Optimization techniques http://ohsomodern.org/work Code snippets, ActionScript 3.0 and some other tech stuff Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:30:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Tracking memory usage http://ohsomodern.org/work/actionscript3/optimization-techniques/tracking-memory-usage http://ohsomodern.org/work/actionscript3/optimization-techniques/tracking-memory-usage#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:32:12 +0000 jenni http://ohsomodern.org/work/?p=70 Continue reading →]]> Lessons learned:

  1. Graphics on the timeline are much heavier SWF resources than SWF files with externalized resources.
  2. Always implement a destroy method for custom classes, to call when the object needs to be removed and made available for garbage collection.
  3. Stage event listeners are bad.
  4. Track your memory usage before deploying a project and shipping it to the customer’s public event.
]]> http://ohsomodern.org/work/actionscript3/optimization-techniques/tracking-memory-usage/feed 0 Commenting ActionScript 3 http://ohsomodern.org/work/actionscript3/commenting-actionscript-3 http://ohsomodern.org/work/actionscript3/commenting-actionscript-3#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:10:17 +0000 jenni http://ohsomodern.org/work/?p=53 Continue reading →]]> I found some good input on how to comment ActionScript and how to toggle comments on and off by adding a slash in front of the block comment sign. Read more here.

//*
thisIsCodeIWant.toToggle(onOff);
andMoreCodeHere();
//*/

Uncommented comments:

/*
thisIsCodeIWant.toToggle(onOff);
andMoreCodeHere();
*/
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