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Originally Posted by frabjous
I have a hard time believing that this particular function would require much processor resources at all. Heck, the sed program, which could handle something like this, dates to 1973.
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Each ligature substitution is another check that needs to be made while pre-processing the stream for display. In isolation, you could probably add that in without inducing a noticeable increase in the delay. Add up all the rest, though, especially hyphenation and tracking adjustments for justification, and a 505 would crawl.
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Originally Posted by Valloric
AFAIK this doesn't have much to do with a faster processor, but a better E-Ink controller - a software/firmware issue.
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The Epson controller in the 600 probably makes a big difference, but I think that's largely because its paralellism frees up cycles on the main cpu (which is running twice as fast as the one in the 505).