Allows to iterate over the following without allocating on the heap:
- tuple
- list
- string, bytes
- bytearray, array
- dict (not dict.keys, dict.values, dict.items)
- set, frozenset
Allows to call the following without heap memory:
- all, any, min, max, sum
TODO: still need to allocate stack memory in bytecode for iter_buf.
ipoll() allows to poll streams without allocating any memory: this method
returns an iterator (a poll object itself), and the iterator yields
preallocated "callee-owned tuple" with polling results for each active
stream. The only operation a caller is allowed to do with this tuple is
extracting values from it (storing the tuple as a whole somewhere is
not allowed).
This makes unix "uselect" compatible with baremetal "uselect". Previosuly,
unix version accepted file/socket objects, but internally converted that
to file descriptors, and that's what .poll() returned. To acheive new
behavior, file-like objects are stored internally in an array, in addition
to existing array of struct pollfd. This array is created only on first
case of file-like object being passed to .register(). If only raw fd's are
passed, there will be no additional memory used comparing to the original
implementation.
This includes file and socket objects, backed by Unix file descriptor.
This improves compatibility with stmhal's uselect (and convenience of
use), though not completely: return value from poll.poll() is still
raw file descriptor.
After an I/O event is triggered for fd, event flags are automatically reset,
so no further events are reported until new event flags are set. This is
an optimization for uasyncio, required to account for coroutine semantics:
each coroutine issues explicit read/write async call, and once that trigger,
no events should be reported to coroutine, unless it again explicitly
requests it. One-shot mode saves one linear scan over the poll array.
Per CPython docs, "Registering a file descriptor that’s already registered
is not an error, and has the same effect as registering the descriptor
exactly once."
https://docs.python.org/3/library/select.html#select.poll.register
That's somewhat ambiguous, what's implemented here is that if fd si not
yet registered, it is registered. Otherwise, the effect is equivalent to
modify() method.
This allows the mp_obj_t type to be configured to something other than a
pointer-sized primitive type.
This patch also includes additional changes to allow the code to compile
when sizeof(mp_uint_t) != sizeof(void*), such as using size_t instead of
mp_uint_t, and various casts.
