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#1 2011-01-31 04:22:04
- MikeKucinski
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2010-11-03
- Posts: 7
Possible memory leak
I have a project which when it runs for about 20 minutes always kills the Microsoft IE browser and the computer operation can get very slow too.
I suspect it is a memory leak.
My project repeatedly stamps patterns to the screen, and after a while, my stamping app apears to get unusually slower, just before the browser crashes.
Can you have someone look at it? My children and their teachers and other students will be bringing it up at school repeatedly and I don't want it crashing their computers.
Here is the project
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/MikeKucinski/1433506
Is it possible that when the drawing is off screen that it is using memory that it shouldn't be? It might be something like that, but my educated guess is that it is a memory leak, since I am a software engineer.
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#2 2011-01-31 04:46:05
- scimonster
- Community Moderator
- Registered: 2010-06-13
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Possible memory leak
Possibly. It is also advised to NOT use IE with scratch. Firefox is recommended.
Last edited by scimonster (2011-01-31 04:46:24)
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#4 2011-01-31 12:49:22
Re: Possible memory leak
Ah, we've suspected there might be a slow memory leak in the Java player for a while now. 
Right now, we're devoting most of our very limited resources to working on the next generation Scratch player, which will run in Flash. We hope to release a beta version of that very soon, and once it is tested, it will be the default Scratch project player on the site. So this is a roundabout way of saying we hope to have this fixed soon by retiring the Java player. Thanks!
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