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Damien George authored
These can be used to insert arbitrary checks, polling, etc into the VM.
They are left general because the VM is a highly tuned loop and it should
be up to a given port how that port wants to modify the VM internals.

One common use would be to insert a polling check, but only done after
a certain number of opcodes were executed, so as not to slow down the VM
too much.  For example:

 #define MICROPY_VM_HOOK_COUNT (30)
 #define MICROPY_VM_HOOK_INIT static uint vm_hook_divisor = MICROPY_VM_HOOK_COUNT
 #define MICROPY_VM_HOOK_POLL if (--vm_hook_divisor == 0) { \
     vm_hook_divisor = MICROPY_VM_HOOK_COUNT;
     extern void vm_hook_function(void);
     vm_hook_function();
 }
 #define MICROPY_VM_HOOK_LOOP MICROPY_VM_HOOK_POLL
 #define MICROPY_VM_HOOK_RETURN MICROPY_VM_HOOK_POLL
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