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py/parse: Compress rule pointer table to table of offsets.
This is the sixth and final patch in a series of patches to the parser that aims to reduce code size by compressing the data corresponding to the rules of the grammar. Prior to this set of patches the rules were stored as rule_t structs with rule_id, act and arg members. And then there was a big table of pointers which allowed to lookup the address of a rule_t struct given the id of that rule. The changes that have been made are: - Breaking up of the rule_t struct into individual components, with each component in a separate array. - Removal of the rule_id part of the struct because it's not needed. - Put all the rule arg data in a big array. - Change the table of pointers to rules to a table of offsets within the array of rule arg data. The last point is what is done in this patch here and brings about the biggest decreases in code size, because an array of pointers is now an array of bytes. Code size changes for the six patches combined is: bare-arm: -644 minimal x86: -1856 unix x64: -5408 unix nanbox: -2080 stm32: -720 esp8266: -812 cc3200: -712 For the change in parser performance: it was measured on pyboard that these six patches combined gave an increase in script parse time of about 0.4%. This is due to the slightly more complicated way of looking up the data for a rule (since the 9th bit of the offset into the rule arg data table is calculated with an if statement). This is an acceptable increase in parse time considering that parsing is only done once per script (if compiled on the target).
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