The easiest thing to implement was to use the i/j numbers, but they were not
directly related to image x/y coordinates. This may slow things down a tiny
little bit, but it looks much better.
* Increase colorspace conversion efficiency.
This not only avoids a function call, it avoids the time-consuming
switch statement in conver_pixel (replacing it with a single
conditional on the byteswap flag + accounting for BGR/RGB during
palette creation)
* Buffer all the bytes of a single frame together. By reducing
low level write calls we get a decent speed increase even though
it increases data-shuffling a bit.
Together with some other changes that enable "double buffered" camera
capture, this gets me to 8.8fps capturing QVGA (320x240) gifs and
11fps capturing 240x240 square gifs.
This involves:
* Adding a new "L8" colorspace for colorconverters
* factoring out displayio_colorconverter_convert_pixel
* Making a minimal "colorspace only" version of displayio for the
unix port (testing purposes)
* fixing an error message
I only tested writing B&W animated images, with the following script:
```python
import displayio
import gifio
with gifio.GifWriter("foo.gif", 64, 64, displayio.Colorspace.L8) as g:
for i in range(0, 256, 14):
data = bytes([i, 255-i] * 32 + [255-i, i] * 32) * 32
print("add_frame")
g.add_frame(data)
# expected to raise an error, buffer is not big enough
with gifio.GifWriter("/dev/null", 64, 64, displayio.Colorspace.L8) as g:
g.add_frame(bytes([3,3,3]))
```
This increases write rates (of gifio from #5490) from about 2.4fps to over
5fps by making more efficient use of the SD card protocol.
Because of details of oofatfs, it usually manages 64 writes in a single
CMD25, then two writes in a different area of the SD card (presumably,
filesystem metadata). I couldn't find where to increase "64" to a higher
number. This may depend on the allocation size of the filesystem.
I tried preallocating too, but oddly it significantly lowered the write
rate.
Any trailing data is committed when the file is close()d, or when
the `sync` method of the SDCard object is called.
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