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#1 2009-12-04 19:11:05

technoman
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Scratch is Bulky

Scratch on Mac seems rather bulky and slow. It is a whole lot faster than 1.3 but still slow. Scratch needs to be rewritten in native language of Mac (Objective-C) for the 21st century. Yes, I know that it would be difficult to rewrite it, but I feel it is necessary. By rewriting it in Mac's native language, it would be extremely fast and be extremely powerful. Scratch's speed is really bothersome and it is hard to make big projects with it. Everyone can't expect just small projects to be made in Scratch. More and more people are making bigger projects and need extra speed and power. If you guys can't rewrite it, then optimize it somehow, by cutting out excess code and useless junk that isn't needed. Every bit counts.

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#2 2009-12-04 19:25:08

GirWaffles64
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Re: Scratch is Bulky

True! Being a Mac Lover, I too agree that it's very, very slow.


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#3 2009-12-04 19:28:14

gershmer
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Registered: 2009-02-12
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Re: Scratch is Bulky

technoman wrote:

Scratch on Mac seems rather bulky and slow. It is a whole lot faster than 1.3 but still slow. Scratch needs to be rewritten in native language of Mac (Objective-C) for the 21st century. Yes, I know that it would be difficult to rewrite it, but I feel it is necessary. By rewriting it in Mac's native language, it would be extremely fast and be extremely powerful. Scratch's speed is really bothersome and it is hard to make big projects with it. Everyone can't expect just small projects to be made in Scratch. More and more people are making bigger projects and need extra speed and power. If you guys can't rewrite it, then optimize it somehow, by cutting out excess code and useless junk that isn't needed. Every bit counts.

It will not be rewritten in Obj-C, Applescript, Cocoa, or XCode, or anything. The Scratch Team has gone to far to start over again.

It IS possible though to speed up Scratch.


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#4 2009-12-04 19:29:28

technoman
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Re: Scratch is Bulky

gershmer wrote:

technoman wrote:

Scratch on Mac seems rather bulky and slow. It is a whole lot faster than 1.3 but still slow. Scratch needs to be rewritten in native language of Mac (Objective-C) for the 21st century. Yes, I know that it would be difficult to rewrite it, but I feel it is necessary. By rewriting it in Mac's native language, it would be extremely fast and be extremely powerful. Scratch's speed is really bothersome and it is hard to make big projects with it. Everyone can't expect just small projects to be made in Scratch. More and more people are making bigger projects and need extra speed and power. If you guys can't rewrite it, then optimize it somehow, by cutting out excess code and useless junk that isn't needed. Every bit counts.

It will not be rewritten in Obj-C, Applescript, Cocoa, or XCode, or anything. The Scratch Team has gone to far to start over again.

It IS possible though to speed up Scratch.

Xcode is not a language. It is a development to on the Mac to make Mac and iPhone apps.

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#5 2009-12-04 19:43:17

illusionist
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Registered: 2008-07-02
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Re: Scratch is Bulky

Thats just goes to show what you get from buying a Mac!  lol

Just kidding... iKnow how slow Scratch can be, even on Windows.

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#6 2009-12-04 20:25:09

samurai768
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Registered: 2009-07-21
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Re: Scratch is Bulky

lol illusionist
But i feel your pain, one time I made a chunky script, and lost half of the project. They should make it faster or smaller  smile

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#7 2009-12-04 21:12:42

Magnie
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Registered: 2007-12-12
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Re: Scratch is Bulky

Oh, I forgot what the quote was from the book "Hackers" oh well, it had something to do with cutting code to make it smaller. They need to do that, or, yes, rewrite it in a language that is supported by all computers, but is nice and fast, like C/C++/C# or any of those types of languages.

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#8 2009-12-04 21:17:17

technoguyx
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Registered: 2008-10-18
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Re: Scratch is Bulky

illusionist wrote:

iKnow how (...)

Lol.

Maybe someone else can rewrite it... Also in the Spanish forum I saw andresmh mentioning that the Scratch Team is considering rewritting Scratch in a more versatile, and a bit more web-oriented language, like ActionScript. But I think it'll take some years to rewrite it  hmm


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