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Previous to this patch any non-interned str/bytes objects would create a special parse node that held a copy of the str/bytes data. Then in the compiler this data would be turned into a str/bytes object. This actually lead to 2 copies of the data, one in the parse node and one in the object. The parse node's copy of the data would be freed at the end of the compile stage but nevertheless it meant that the peak memory usage of the parse/compile stage was higher than it needed to be (by an amount equal to the number of bytes in all the non-interned str/bytes objects). This patch changes the behaviour so that str/bytes objects are created directly in the parser and the object stored in a const-object parse node (which already exists for bignum, float and complex const objects). This reduces peak RAM usage of the parse/compile stage, simplifies the parser and compiler, and reduces code size by about 170 bytes on Thumb2 archs, and by about 300 bytes on Xtensa archs.
This directory contains tests for various functionality areas of MicroPython. To run all stable tests, run "run-tests" script in this directory. Tests of capabilities not supported on all platforms should be written to check for the capability being present. If it is not, the test should merely output 'SKIP' followed by the line terminator, and call sys.exit() to raise SystemExit, instead of attempting to test the missing capability. The testing framework (run-tests in this directory, test_main.c in qemu_arm) recognizes this as a skipped test. There are a few features for which this mechanism cannot be used to condition a test. The run-tests script uses small scripts in the feature_check directory to check whether each such feature is present, and skips the relevant tests if not. When creating new tests, anything that relies on float support should go in the float/ subdirectory. Anything that relies on import x, where x is not a built-in module, should go in the import/ subdirectory.