Slowdown when putting symbols into image data

[J. Landman Gay]

On 9/9/2014, 6:17 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> accessing bytes (or historically chars) is 'direct' - the enginge can
> calculate where byte N is and just accesses it directly - in contrast to
> needing to traverse thrugh counting

Thanks Alex, that's good to know. If you figure out where the slowdown 
is in the original script I'll be curious to know that too.

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