Comment by mejutoco
15 hours ago
It was also leaking memory, which made it very unsuitable for anything long running (like long-running screen displays, ask me how I know).
15 hours ago
It was also leaking memory, which made it very unsuitable for anything long running (like long-running screen displays, ask me how I know).
This is a misconception. AS3 actually had great garbage collection, and solidly written AS3 code did not leak.
Flex player leaked memory like a sieve. After one day or so it would hang the computer. Maybe it was wrongly written, but leak it did. I have experienced it first hand.
Maybe it was the standalone flex player instead of the web Flash player?
My memory is a bit fuzzy, do not remember flex player, did you mean AIR?
(Flash for desktop, with file access)