oh ok. Idk then.

As for the test I just took Zelda DLQ and converted it to graph screen, and got about half the speed I had

Wait, why am I getting credit?

Because I used the reordered extra characters in this: http://ourl.ca/5906

When I worked on setting up the sprites for Elmgon, I tested for speed and Output(always seemed faster.
I tested with this:
For(A,1,5
Output(1,1,sub("123451234",A,5
End
and
For(A,1,5
Text(-1,0,0,sub("123451234",A,5
End

What are your OS versions by the way? I am curious if the speed might vary between them and calc models. Also I think stuff on home screen was slower with Omnicalc, xLIB or Celtic III enabled

It's interesting, though. That said, I think Text(-1 is better due to the higher freedom we get with that. It can be larger, though, since rows/col aren't multiple of 8/6 divided by that amount, meaning more numbers taking 2 digits, wasting one byte of RAM.