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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: The Amethyst 2 Profiler
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Profiling a Flash application allows you to see which functions are consuming most CPU and, in addition, detect memory leaks. Memory leaks can be quite insidious in Flash as it's quite easy to allocate, say, an event handler and forget about it In Amethyst 2, we've added a powerful profiling tool that not only allows you to see the amount of memory being used but to track down memory leaks easily. So, to demonstrate this, I've created some code that clearly has a memory (...)