It's designed to minimize RAM footprint by using Sprites to
represent objects on the screen. The object model also facilitates
partial screen updating which reduces the bandwidth needed to display.
This is all handled in C. Python simply manipulates the objects with
the ability to synchronize to frame timing.
Commit 95e70cd0ea 'time: Use 1970 epoch' changed epoch for the time
module, but not for other users. This patch does the same for the only
other core timeutils user: extmod/vfs_fat.c:fat_vfs_stat().
Other timeutils users: cc3200, esp8266 and stm32, are not changed.
Ports that don't use long ints, will still get wrong time values from
os.stat().
This saves code space in builds which use link-time optimization.
The optimization drops the untranslated strings and replaces them
with a compressed_string_t struct. It can then be decompressed to
a c string.
Builds without LTO work as well but include both untranslated
strings and compressed strings.
This work could be expanded to include QSTRs and loaded strings if
a compress method is added to C. Its tracked in #531.
Its slimmed down by removing the qstr and bit packing TCC info.
The trinket m0 build actually grows by 20 bytes. The arduino zero
build shrinks by 188 bytes.
This allows for the heap to fill all space but the stack. It also
allows us to designate space for memory outside the runtime for
things such as USB descriptors, flash cache and main filename.
Fixes#754
We now track the last time the background task ran and bail on the
PulseIn if it starves the background work. In practice, this
happens after the numbers from pulsein are no longer accurate.
This also adjusts interrupt priorities so most are the lowest level
except for the tick and USB interrupts.
Fixes#516 and #876
For some reason, when the GamePad is created from frozen code, the
get_pressed method would always return 0. This fixes it, and makes it
work properly no matter how the object was created.
Don't check the pin's pull direction on every tick, instead cache it
at the beginning. Also avoid a "can't get pull of output pin" error
when one of the pins passed is in output mode.
Use UNIX epoch to match CPython.
This overflows small int so time.{time,localtime,mktime} is only supported with long int.
Also remove some comment cruft in time_time().
