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I built the Snap Shots game, top middle, check it out…

So after reading Skinner’s post on AS3 Resource management I have one thing to say, CLEAN YOUR CODE!!  That means removing all listeners, and nulling out all of your visualloaders, etc.  Best thing to do is in all of your views have an initialize function and a clean function.  This way you can add listeners in your init and remove them in your clean function.  Also any displayobjects that you remove from the stage never get deleted, at least not that I know of and I build this stuff all day.  So everything that you have in that class is going to remain in memory. So if you can, remove them in your clean function.  Anyway, that’s all for now… have you all seen Google’s new app engine? HOT!!!

Check out SHU! Shu enables you to increase the power and reach of Adobe AIR. With Shu your AIR applications can quickly be converted into standalone applications to run on PC or Mac machines without the AIR runtime installed! Shu applications can also be run from a CD or network share and do not require installation.

In addition Shu provides you the developer with a toolkit of commands to extend the system capabilities of your AIR application, features include, controlling external applications, opening external files, database connectivity and control, system path retrieval and screen capture functionality. With Shu you can now truly harness the power of your AIR applications from the desktop and beyond!

Adobe has a great article on improving Flex performance.  Its a definite must read just for the slew of hints and tricks.  Alot of it deals with using Runtime Shared Libraries and a few optimization techniques when compiling your libraries.  Good stuff for all you Flex developers.