How to unload a ByteArray using Actionscript 3?

Question

How do I forcefully unload a ByteArray from memory using ActionScript 3?

I have tried the following:

// First non-working solution
byteA         


        

Answer 1

Unfortunately when it comes to memory management in Flash/actionscript there isn't a whole lot you can do. ActionScript was designed to be easy to use (so they didn't want people to have to worry about memory management)

The following is a workaround, instead of creating a ByteArray variable try this.

var byteObject:Object = new Object();

byteObject.byteArray = new ByteArray();

...

//Then when you are finished delete the variable from byteObject
delete byteObject.byteArray;

Where byteArray is a dynamic property of byteObject, you can free the memory that was allocated for it.