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what exactly does system.totalMemory test in Actionscript 3.0?

before somebody screaming RTFM, let me clarify.

does system.totalMemory test the memory used in movie which invokes it, or used by all movies running on the browser/system?

I want to initiate garbage collaction for my app when it reaches a certain limit and i dont want the process to be initialized by the user watching funny cats youtube video.

+1  A: 

edit: misread a part

after some testing, it gives the amount of bytes currently in use byt the flash player that is calling the system.totalMemory

red-X  2010-04-07 10:10:36
nope.. i just tested it as well. it picked up youtube memory in a separate tab as well
vasion  2010-04-07 10:50:10
at first i thought that aswell, but than i testet with newgrounds in another tab and it didnt change the value, maby it needs a bit more testing.
red-X  2010-04-07 10:53:57

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