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Replying to @fast_code_r_us

I mean it’s mostly my code, so it could be that 🙃. Babel uses ~200 lookup tables for constant-time access to glyph data (which I’m pretty proud of), but the LUTs are all in Flash, so there’s a lot of mucking about on the SPI bus. My cutting the bus speed in half may be a factor.

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