It's much more efficient in RAM and code size to do implicit literal string
concatenation in the lexer, as opposed to the compiler.

RAM usage is reduced because the concatenation can be done right away in the
tokeniser by just accumulating the string/bytes literals into the lexer's
vstr.  Prior to this patch adjacent strings/bytes would create a parse tree
(one node per string/bytes) and then in the compiler a whole new chunk of
memory was allocated to store the concatenated string, which used more than
double the memory compared to just accumulating in the lexer.

This patch also significantly reduces code size:

bare-arm: -204
minimal:  -204
unix x64: -328
stmhal:   -208
esp8266:  -284
cc3200:   -224

Previous to this patch there was an explicit check for errors with line
continuation (where backslash was not immediately followed by a newline).

But this check is not necessary: if there is an error then the remaining
logic of the tokeniser will reject the backslash and correctly produce a
syntax error.

Since the table of keywords is sorted, we can use strcmp to do the search
and stop part way through the search if the comparison is less-than.

Because all tokens that are names are subject to this search, this
optimisation will improve the overall speed of the lexer when processing
a script.

The change also decreases code size by a little bit because we now use
strcmp instead of the custom str_strn_equal function.

Keywords only needs to be searched for if the token is a MP_TOKEN_NAME, so
we can move the seach to the part of the code that does the tokenising for
MP_TOKEN_NAME.

It's not needed.

This provides mp_vfs_XXX functions (eg mount, open, listdir) which are
agnostic to the underlying filesystem type, and just require an object with
the relevant filesystem-like methods (eg .mount, .open, .listidr) which can
then be mounted.

These mp_vfs_XXX functions would typically be used by a port to implement
the "uos" module, and mp_vfs_open would be the builtin open function.

This feature is controlled by MICROPY_VFS, disabled by default.

The lexer is very mature and this debug function is no longer used.  If
it's really needed one can uncomment it and recompile.

This check always fails (ie chr0 is never EOF) because the callers of this
function never call it past the end of the input stream.  And even if they
did it would be harmless because 1) reader.readbyte must continue to
return an EOF char if the stream is exhausted; 2) next_char would just
count the subsequent EOF's as characters worth 1 column.

If a port defines MICROPY_READER_POSIX or MICROPY_READER_FATFS then
lexer.c now provides an implementation of mp_lexer_new_from_file using
the mp_reader_new_file function.

Setting emit_dent=0 is unnecessary because arriving in that part of the
if-logic will guarantee that emit_dent is already zero.

The block to check indent_top(lex)>0 is unreachable because a newline is
always inserted an the end of the input stream, and hence dedents are
always processed before EOF.

The vstr.had_error flag was a relic from the very early days which assumed
that the malloc functions (eg m_new, m_renew) returned NULL if they failed
to allocate.  But that's no longer the case: these functions will raise an
exception if they fail.

Since it was impossible for had_error to be set, this patch introduces no
change in behaviour.

An alternative option would be to change the malloc calls to the _maybe
variants, which return NULL instead of raising, but then a lot of code
will need to explicitly check if the vstr had an error and raise if it
did.

The code-size savings for this patch are, in bytes: bare-arm:188,
minimal:456, unix(NDEBUG,x86-64):368, stmhal:228, esp8266:360.

Otherwise some compilers (eg without optimisation) will put this read-only
data in RAM instead of ROM.

They are sugar for marking function as generator, "yield from"
and pep492 python "semantically equivalents" respectively.

@dpgeorge was the original author of this patch, but @pohmelie made
changes to implement `async for` and `async with`.

This new compile-time option allows to make the bytecode compiler
configurable at runtime by setting the fields in the mp_dynamic_compiler
structure.  By using this feature, the compiler can generate bytecode
that targets any MicroPython runtime/VM, regardless of the host and
target compile-time settings.

Options so far that fall under this dynamic setting are:
- maximum number of bits that a small int can hold;
- whether caching of lookups is used in the bytecode;
- whether to use unicode strings or not (lexer behaviour differs, and
  therefore generated string constants differ).

MICROPY_ENABLE_COMPILER can be used to enable/disable the entire compiler,
which is useful when only loading of pre-compiled bytecode is supported.
It is enabled by default.

MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_EVAL_EXEC controls support of eval and exec builtin
functions.  By default they are only included if MICROPY_ENABLE_COMPILER
is enabled.

Disabling both options saves about 40k of code size on 32-bit x86.

Eg 0e0 almost looks like a hex number but in fact is a float.

Addresses issue #1390.

This allows stmhal to be compiled with MICROPY_DEBUG_PRINTERS.

Enabled simply by making the identifier lexing code 8-bit clean.

This also pulls out hex_digit from py/lexer.c and makes unichar_hex_digit

Previous to this patch, a big-int, float or imag constant was interned
(made into a qstr) and then parsed at runtime to create an object each
time it was needed.  This is wasteful in RAM and not efficient.  Now,
these constants are parsed straight away in the parser and turned into
objects.  This allows constants with large numbers of digits (so
addresses issue #1103) and takes us a step closer to #722.

Only noticeable difference is how newlines are encoded in triple-quoted
strings.  The behaviour now matches CPython3.

See issue #699.

This patch consolidates all global variables in py/ core into one place,
in a global structure.  Root pointers are all located together to make
GC tracing easier and more efficient.

Addresses issue #1022.

mp_lexer_t type is exposed, mp_token_t type is removed, and simple lexer
functions (like checking current token kind) are now inlined.

This saves 784 bytes ROM on 32-bit unix, 348 bytes on stmhal, and 460
bytes on bare-arm.  It also saves a tiny bit of RAM since mp_lexer_t
is a bit smaller.  Also will run a bit more efficiently.