Fading text on an OLED screen

Here’s my hack of the moment: text fading in on a OLIMEX 128×64 OLED display. The interesting bit is that this is a TTF font which is rendered by SDL2 into a buffer, dithered into black and white using Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion, and then written out using the Intel IoT upm display driver. Optimizing the bulk write routine got the frame rate up from ~4 FPS to ~15 FPS.