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Flex 3 Profiler & [tincan]

While profiling an application I’m working on I came across and interesting method in my performance snapshot. Method [tincan], for those of you wondering what this is, as I was, I Googled Flex 3 [tincan] and came across this post on flexcoders: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders@yahoogroups.com/msg83781.html
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Flex Application Life Cycle

In the last project I was working on we were developing more so based on Flex’s Application and component life cycles. Binding data within the life cycle helps eliminate the need for weak references as well as direct mxml bindings which ill admit I have been know to over use.

Recently a co-worker David Chang and I looked into the exact process Flex takes when initializing an application and its components and at what stages the data is available.
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