circuitpython/tests/thread/stress_heap.py
Damien George 2847d7431d tests/thread: Replace busy waiting loops with a loop that sleeps.
Depending on the thread scheduler, a busy-wait loop can hog the CPU and
make the tests very slow.  So convert such loops to loops that have an
explicit sleep, allowing the worker threads to do their job.
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# stress test for the heap by allocating lots of objects within threads
# allocates about 5mb on the heap
#
# MIT license; Copyright (c) 2016 Damien P. George on behalf of Pycom Ltd
try:
import utime as time
except ImportError:
import time
import _thread
def last(l):
return l[-1]
def thread_entry(n):
# allocate a bytearray and fill it
data = bytearray(i for i in range(256))
# run a loop which allocates a small list and uses it each iteration
lst = 8 * [0]
sum = 0
for i in range(n):
sum += last(lst)
lst = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, i + 1]
# check that the bytearray still has the right data
for i, b in enumerate(data):
assert i == b
# print the result of the loop and indicate we are finished
with lock:
print(sum, lst[-1])
global n_finished
n_finished += 1
lock = _thread.allocate_lock()
n_thread = 10
n_finished = 0
# spawn threads
for i in range(n_thread):
_thread.start_new_thread(thread_entry, (10000,))
# wait for threads to finish
while n_finished < n_thread:
time.sleep(1)