Additional Information on Loader.unloadAndStop. Posted on July 4, 2008 by Grant Skinner Following my post yesterday about the addition of Loader.unloadAndStop to the Flash Player 10 API, I chatted with Werner Sharp, who is one of the Adobe engineers that worked on the feature (and an all round good guy).
Following that discussion, I thought it would be helpful to post a summary of what I know about it, and disseminate some of the information Werner provided. The unloadAndStop method was added in response to challenges ActionScript developers were facing with halting loaded SWF content, and removing it from memory. These issues were detailed in an article I posted in early April titled “Failure to Unload: Flash Player 9′s Dirty Secret“. Failure to Unload: Flash Player 9's Dirty Secret. Posted on April 7, 2008 by Grant Skinner Update: Adobe has added the Loader.unloadAndStop method to Flash player 10 to address some of the issues outlined in this article.
You can find more details on this feature in my article “Additional Information on Loader.unloadAndStop“. Flash Player 9 has a very dirty secret. It doesn’t even try hide this dirty secret, but it’s still not that widely known. You see, Flash Player has severe problems with separation anxiety – once it’s loaded some content, it has a really hard time ever letting it go. Why Do Adobe Flash Videos Slow Down? - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTi. Garbage Collection and Memory Leaks - Alex’s Flex Closet.