Builtin functions with a fixed number of arguments (0, 1, 2 or 3) are
quite common. Before this patch the wrapper for such a function cost
3 machine words. After this patch it only takes 2, which can reduce the
code size by quite a bit (and pays off even more, the more functions are
added). It also makes function dispatch slightly more efficient in CPU
usage, and furthermore reduces stack usage for these cases. On x86 and
Thumb archs the dispatch functions are now tail-call optimised by the
compiler.
The bare-arm port has its code size increase by 76 bytes, but stmhal drops
by 904 bytes. Stack usage by these builtin functions is decreased by 48
bytes on Thumb2 archs.
In order to have more fine-grained control over how builtin functions are
constructed, the MP_DECLARE_CONST_FUN_OBJ macros are made more specific,
with suffix of _0, _1, _2, _3, _VAR, _VAR_BETEEN or _KW. These names now
match the MP_DEFINE_CONST_FUN_OBJ macros.
Running Python code on a hard interrupt is incompatible with having a GIL,
because most of the time the GIL will be held by the user thread when the
interrupt arrives. Hard interrupts mean that we should process them right
away and hence can't wait until the GIL is released.
The problem with the current code is that a hard interrupt will try to
exit/enter the GIL while it is still held by the user thread, hence leading
to a deadlock.
This patch works around such a problem by just making GIL exit/enter a
no-op when in an interrupt context, or when interrupts are disabled.
See issue #2406.
SDK 2.0.0 goes into boot loop if a firmware is programmed over erased flash,
causing problems with user experience. This change implements behavior
similar to older SDKs': if clean flash is detected, default system
parameters are used.
As long as a port implement mp_hal_sleep_ms(), mp_hal_ticks_ms(), etc.
functions, it can just use standard implementations of utime.sleel_ms(),
utime.ticks_ms(), etc. Python-level functions.
Now there is just one function to allocate a new vstr, namely vstr_new
(in addition to vstr_init etc). The caller of this function should know
what initial size to allocate for the buffer, or at least have some policy
or config option, instead of leaving it to a default (as it was before).
Erik Moqvist
Damien George
Paul Sokolovsky
Alex March