Previously, mark operation weren't logged at all, while it's quite useful
to see cascade of marks in case of over-marking (and in other cases too).
Previously, sweep was logged for each block of object in memory, but that
doesn't make much sense and just lead to longer output, harder to parse
by a human. Instead, log sweep only once per object. This is similar to
other memory manager operations, e.g. an object is allocated, then freed.
Or object is allocated, then marked, otherwise swept (one log entry per
operation, with the same memory address in each case).
The default bahaviour for debug builds is to show dialog boxes for asserts
and invalid parameter handling. This is not so nice in general and causes
the Appveyor debug builds to hang because the io\file_seek.py test passes
a closed file descriptor to lseek. Disable this behaviour by printing
assert messages to the output instead of showing the dialog, and by
disabling 'invalid' parameter handling which causes the affected functions
to just return an error and set errno appropriately.
Map indicies are most commonly a qstr, and adding a fast-path for hashing
of a qstr increases overall performance of the runtime.
On pyboard there is a 4% improvement in the pystone benchmark for a cost
of 20 bytes of code size. It's about a 2% improvement on unix.
Paul Sokolovsky
Damien George
Dave Hylands
Peter Hinch
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