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The start of the bytecode prelude contains 6 numbers telling the amount of stack needed for the Python values and exceptions, and the signature of the function. Prior to this patch these numbers were all encoded one after the other (2x variable unsigned integers, then 4x bytes), but using so many bytes is unnecessary. An entropy analysis of around 150,000 bytecode functions from the CPython standard library showed that the optimal Shannon coding would need about 7.1 bits on average to encode these 6 numbers, compared to the existing 48 bits. This patch attempts to get close to this optimal value by packing the 6 numbers into a single, varible-length unsigned integer via bit-wise interleaving. The interleaving scheme is chosen to minimise the average number of bytes needed, and at the same time keep the scheme simple enough so it can be implemented without too much overhead in code size or speed. The scheme requires about 10.5 bits on average to store the 6 numbers. As a result most functions which originally took 6 bytes to encode these 6 numbers now need only 1 byte (in 80% of cases).
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.