Yes, just having the image vars at the top will help - it won't use much RAM but it does avoid having to search for the files on the flash memory first, so it's definitely an improvement.
Bangle.js isn't super fast though so I'm afraid you will likely always see some delay...
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Yes, just having the image vars at the top will help - it won't use much RAM but it does avoid having to search for the files on the flash memory first, so it's definitely an improvement.
Bangle.js isn't super fast though so I'm afraid you will likely always see some delay...