Tilemaps under the hood

Here's a question that stomped us in the Playdate discord: Should tilemaps mark the entire screen as dirty when they move?

See my example below:

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(Updated: I couldn't reproduce the difference in performance between two differently sized tile maps in my experiments so I removed that part of the original post).

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There seems to be an interesting optimisation at x = 0 too, noticeably faster than any other case.