Would anyone know whether AIR for iOS apps run garbage collection?
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The Flash/AIR runtime’s garbage collector does indeed run in AIR for iOS applications. Explicitly setting variables to null with AIR is simply decrementing the reference count and clearing the reference, not deleting the variable. The garbage collector will later run and clear that memory.
All the information you could want about the actual garbage collector and how it works is available in a devnet article at Adobe.com