New tutorial: Profiling memory with TheMiner

Tutorial: Using the Memory profiler

Most of the time, Flash performance issues come from bad memory management.
Object instantiation take a lot of time, and since FlashPlayer work with a Garbage Collector, having tons of objects can make it go nuts.
Good practice is to remove all instantiation from loops, keep a minimum of object in memory and use serialization and bytearrays to keep some data.
This profiler show you what the VM is reporting as object being allocated and removed (garbage collected).
Here is what the profiler look like:

1. Search filter
Since there is a lot of different object type being managed by the VM,
just listing them would make it hard to find specific data.
This input box let you enter any text to filter the visible object using their QName
When the filter search is ON (there is text inside the box), the box appear green,
and only class name with the text in it appear in the list [...]
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