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CONTROLLING EXECUTION

Once the Profiler is running, you’ll see your application listed in the Profile view.

Select the application, and a bunch of icons will light up and give you options.

Table 23.5 describes these options, which are execution-control functionality.

Table 23.5 Flex Builder’s Profiler functions

Icon Function Description

Resume Resumes execution of the application.

Suspend Pauses the application.

Terminate Terminates the application.

Run Garbage

Collection

Forces garbage collection to run now versus waiting for it to happen. This

recovers memory from objects that are no longer in use.

Take Mem or y

Snapshot

Takes a snapshot of your memory usage and breaks it down by how that

memory is used. Use this feature to take snapshots whenever you suspect

major memory operations occur, and later evaluate these snapshots.

Find Loitering

Objects

Goes hand in hand with Take Memory Snapshot in that this feature can com-

pare the differences between snapshots.

View Allocation

Trac e

Available after selecting two memory snapshots. Shows which functions

were called from one snapshot to another and how much memory was uti-

lized in the process.

Reset

Performance

Data

Resets the recorded information.

Figure 23.6 The Profiler

provides aggregate statistics

on memory and CPU usage.

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