Memory optimization work for very low memory devices (96 to 256kB system RAM).
Overall changes are:
- 16-bit fields for various internal structures to reduce their size
- Heap pointer compression to reduce pointer size to 16 bits
When DUK_OPT_LIGHTFUNC_BUILTINS and the new low memory options are enabled,
Duktape initial heap memory usage is about 23kB (compared to baseline of
about 45kB) on x86.
Unless low memory feature options are enabled, there should be no visible
changes to Duktape behavior.
More detailed changes:
- 16-bit changes for duk_heaphdr: pointer compression, refcount
- 16-bit changes for duk_hstring: hash, blen, and clen can all be 16 bits,
use 0xFFFF as string byte length limit (call sites ensure this limit is
never exceeded)
- 16-bit changes for duk_hbuffer, use 0xFFFF as buffer length limit
- 16-bit fields for hobject size (entry part, array part), drop hash part
since it's not usually needed for extremely low memory environments
- 16-bit changes for duk_hcompiledfunction
- Heap pointer packing for stringtable
- Heap pointer packing for 'strs' built-in strings list (saves around 600
to 700 bytes but may not be a good tradeoff because call site size will
increase)
Other changes:
- Heaphdr NULL init fix. The original macros were broken: the double/single
linked macro variants were the wrong way around. Now sets through macro
to work properly with compressed pointers.
- Rename duk_hbuffer CURR_DATA_PTR -> DATA_PTR to reduce macro length
(previous name was tediously long)
- Rename buffer "usable_size" to "alloc_size" throughout as they have been
the same for a while now (they used to differ when buffer had an extra NUL).
- Add memory optimization markers to Duktape.env (pointer compression and
individual 16-bit field options)
- Rename a few internal fields for clarity: duk_hobject 'p' to 'props',
heap->st to heap->strtable
- Add a safety check for buffer alloc size (should not be triggered but
prevents wrapping if call sites don't properly check for sizes)
- Other minor cleanups
* Fix outstanding FIXME issues for lightfunc semantics.
* Improve API and Ecmascript testcases to match.
* Clarify lightfunc limitations, e.g. finalizer limitations.
* Guide and API documentation changes for lightfuncs.
* Fix compile warning: duk_str_not_object unused.