object references in event handlers prevent GC
ericsoco | 2009/03/21 | 2:03 pma bug in flash player 9 i came across today while trying to get a swf to unload completely:
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1770
if you have a reference to Keyboard or Capabilities (or, probably, a number of other native Classes as well) in an event handler, it will loiter as a pair of Class and Object references when the enclosing swf is unloaded via Loader.unload().
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