Slow response and trouble with mutators

[Martin_Herraiz]

Hi all.
I'm experiencing some troubles:

• Response when typing on a comment box is slow (sometimes it takes a couple of seconds to see on screen what I typed).
• Using the mutator to add a new item gets terrible. Please see on the image what happened when I tried to insert a new string (in the second position) to a Join text block (almost all the existing strings got disconected, because only two sockets remained).
  

Does it happen to someone else, or do I need to buy a new and faster computer?

[ABG]

The mutator does not scale well.

At your level, switch to an iterative solution like YAML, that can be generated programatically from dictionaries.

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[ewpatton]

In an earlier version of App Inventor we had patched this to work. I'm wondering if the latest update to Blockly may have degraded mutator performance.

@Martin_Herraiz Would you mind sharing a copy of the project with me for testing?

[Martin_Herraiz]

It runs faster and better now.
If I use the mutator to drag a series of strings (from the second till the final one) to move them to the first position.... Then, while they are flying, the sockets appear as disconected.
But as soon as I drop them on the final position, the sockets reconect again, every one in the correct position.
Thanks Ewan.