How to lower lag for clones?

Help with Snap!
1

I teach an intro to comp sci course for high schoolers. A lot of them get into using clones, but Snap! quickly lags. For example, I have a student on this 2nd day of class that created this project and it begins to lag when there are only 5-10 clones on the screen.

Mouse clicks fire a projectile, which launches you the opposite direction.

Are there tricks people have for lower lag levels? My only solutions so far are:

  1. Try a browser other than chrome and it is sometimes better
  2. Keep the stage in the regular/minimized view and not full screen.

Thank you

Cheers,
Brendan

2

I think the problem is having a ton of forever loops for every clone.

3

Interesting. It doesn't just lag uniformly. It runs fine for a while, then it goes through seven or eight (for me anyway) total stops followed by jerks, then back to running fine. So unless there's a bug in your code that wasn't obvious to me, I'm going with a garbage collection issue.

By the way, if you set flag variables to U5 TTT ITIT-TIF solution file script pic or U5 TTT ITIT-TIF solution file script pic (1) instead of using text strings, you can just say U5 TTT ITIT-TIF solution file script pic (2) instead of U5 TTT ITIT-TIF solution file script pic (3), which makes your program a little faster and (imho) a lot more readable.

Maybe Jens will have a suggestion when he's back from vacation.

4

btw, this should go in help with snap and not how to. How to is for tutorials, and help with snap is for... help with snap...

5

righto.