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#1 2009-10-08 22:53:40

illusionist
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Create Scratch in a different language - Reduce Lag?

Scratch is made in squeak, and it is incredibly slow.

What if MIT made Scratch in something else? Would it reduce offline lag?

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#2 2009-10-08 23:04:22

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Re: Create Scratch in a different language - Reduce Lag?

illusionist wrote:

Scratch is made in squeak, and it is incredibly slow.

What if MIT made Scratch in something else? Would it reduce offline lag?

yikes

Nice Idea!

Maybe if scratch was written in Javascript, it would run more effieciently on the Java Player

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#3 2009-10-08 23:21:28

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Re: Create Scratch in a different language - Reduce Lag?

How about they make scratch compiled instead of interpreted. That would probably make it faster.

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#4 2009-10-09 00:35:11

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Re: Create Scratch in a different language - Reduce Lag?

Good idea! Squeak DOES run kinda slow. I wonder * scratch would look like in Java.
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#5 2009-10-09 19:11:50

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Re: Create Scratch in a different language - Reduce Lag?

archmage wrote:

How about they make scratch compiled instead of interpreted. That would probably make it faster.

But is it really that simple? If It was, I'm sure they would have done it already...  hmm

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#6 2009-10-09 21:48:46

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Re: Create Scratch in a different language - Reduce Lag?

illusionist wrote:

archmage wrote:

How about they make scratch compiled instead of interpreted. That would probably make it faster.

But is it really that simple? If It was, I'm sure they would have done it already...  hmm

I'm pretty sure Squeak can't handle online compiling...

That's why it should be written in Javascript!

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#7 2009-10-10 00:36:12

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Re: Create Scratch in a different language - Reduce Lag?

I think it should use the code illusionist brought up. It would not use too much memory to do the drag and drop, the snapping blocks together and the clean up.

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#8 2009-10-10 09:51:30

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Re: Create Scratch in a different language - Reduce Lag?

Squeak was chosen because it's cross-platform. Java is cross-platform too. And, both solutions are freeware-licensed. That's why.

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#9 2009-10-10 10:20:20

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Re: Create Scratch in a different language - Reduce Lag?

Ah...

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