There are a lot of good articles already written & screen casts about memory management in Flash Player. I encourage you to read them first before reading the below. I cover memory management in a large application using a PureMVC architecture, typically on top of Flex.
Memory Management, referring to making sure your application doesn’t leak memory through the use of responsible coding practices, is hard. It’s even harder if you don’t have a history of having to deal with such things (*cough* Flash Developers *cough*). It was challenging for me to learn… and I’m still learning. As the Flex community has grown, we’ve seen the influx