What is the smallest amount of time you can put in the "wait" block?

Kangaroo135

I ask a lot of random questions. Here's another one!
What is the smallest amount of time you can put in the “wait” block?
This one:

wait () secs

PrincessFlowerTV

As far as I know:

wait (0.01) secs

-Exphire-

I once tried

wait (0.0000000000000000000000000000001) secs

but I think it just ran the same speed as

wait (0.01) secs

EDIT: wrong number

Last edited by -Exphire- (July 31, 2020 14:31:53)

RL1123

It's

wait ((1) / (30)) secs

Because scratch runs at 30 FPS. Anything lower will automatically wait 0.03 seconds.

j3r0_plays

As far as i know, sometimes you use

wait (0) secs

in very fast scripts to allow the browser to catch up. Basically any script is a wait script of a some sort. 1/30 secs is basically the lowest in a wait script, as scratch is 30 fps.

RL1123

j3r0_plays wrote:
As far as i know, sometimes you use
wait (0) secs
in very fast scripts to allow the browser to catch up. Basically any script is a wait script of a some sort. 1/30 secs is basically the lowest in a wait script, as scratch is 30 fps.

As what I said.

scratchykit5743

i once put in a picosecond…

RL1123

scratchykit5743 wrote:
i once put in a picosecond…

Which waits for 0.03 seconds.

HyperGamerStudios

Technically 0 is the smallest number and the highest number being unlimited

Maximouse

You can put in 0 and it waits 1 frame (1/30 seconds).

dftyu

j3r0_plays wrote:
As far as i know, sometimes you use
wait (0) secs
in very fast scripts to allow the browser to catch up. Basically any script is a wait script of a some sort. 1/30 secs is basically the lowest in a wait script, as scratch is 30 fps.

does scratch not have fps optimizations?

RL1123

dftyu wrote:
j3r0_plays wrote:
As far as i know, sometimes you use
wait (0) secs
in very fast scripts to allow the browser to catch up. Basically any script is a wait script of a some sort. 1/30 secs is basically the lowest in a wait script, as scratch is 30 fps.
does scratch not have fps optimizations?

No.

fdreerf

Well, technically, you can put whatever number you want in it, so really it's negative infinity.

junaayd

-Exphire- wrote:
I once tried
wait (0.0000000000000000000000000000001) secs
but I think it just ran the same speed as
wait (0.01) secs
EDIT: wrong number

That is because the wait block thinks that the extra 0s are the tiniest amounts of speed, so it runs faster than 0.01, report that bug on the “Report a Bug” section of the discussion

fdreerf

junaayd wrote:
-Exphire- wrote:
I once tried
wait (0.0000000000000000000000000000001) secs
but I think it just ran the same speed as
wait (0.01) secs
EDIT: wrong number
That is because the wait block thinks that the extra 0s are the tiniest amounts of speed, so it runs faster than 0.01, report that bug on the “Report a Bug” section of the discussion

No, it is simply because Scratch (or basically any computer) cannot run that fast, so it can only wait the minimum time of a single frame.

j3r0_plays

Also, based on my knowledge, scratch is MEANT to be slow. Something like forkphorus is not slow.

LankyBox01

-∞

wait [-∞] secs

Last edited by LankyBox01 (Aug. 1, 2020 11:25:00)

cloverCat156

Kangaroo135 wrote:
I ask a lot of random questions. Here's another one!
What is the smallest amount of time you can put in the “wait” block?
This one:
wait () secs

I think…

wait (0) secs

LankyBox01

LankyBox01 wrote:
-∞
wait [-∞] secs

This is smaller than 0!

cloverCat156

LankyBox01 wrote:
-∞
wait [-∞] secs

THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE

Last edited by cloverCat156 (Aug. 2, 2020 11:23:28)

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