The garbage collector of actionscript 3 works in 2 different ways to know which object should be deleted from memory: the reference counting method and the mark&sweep.

Emanuele, one of our senior developer at Comtaste,  wrote an interesting article on our company's blog about the Garbage Collector in Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 3.

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Marco Casario is one of the most dynamic developers in the Adobe (formerly Macromedia) world. Flex and FlashLite certified Instructor, Flash and Dreamweaver certified, he intensively collaborates with Adobe Italy as a speaker and promoter of several events and roadshows. Marco has recently founded Comtaste S.r.l., a company dedicated to explore new frontiers in the Web 2.0 field, where the themes of accessibility and usability have added further importance to the PDF format and the relevant Acrobat application tools.

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