Enable customizing PageShift to set PageSize for embedded targets (#19129)
* Enable customizing PageSize (via PageShift). This enables adjusting PageSize for embedded targets without abusing cpu16. * copy nimPageXYZ settings for mmpaptest * add docs for Nim manual * add docs for Nim manual * docs tweaks Co-authored-by: Jaremy Creechley <jaremy.creechley@panthalassa.com>
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@ -656,6 +656,30 @@ is not available but C's `malloc` is. You can use the `nimAllocPagesViaMalloc`
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define to use `malloc` instead of `mmap`. `nimAllocPagesViaMalloc` is currently
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only supported with `--gc:arc` or `--gc:orc`. (Since version 1.6)
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nimPage256 / nimPage512 / nimPage1k
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===================================
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Adjust the page size for Nim's GC allocator. This enables using
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`nimAllocPagesViaMalloc` on devices with less RAM. The default
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page size requires too much RAM to work.
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Recommended settings:
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- < 32 kB of RAM use `nimPage256`
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- < 512 kB of RAM use `nimPage512`
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- < 2 MB of RAM use `nimPage1k`
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Initial testing hasn't shown much difference between 512B or 1kB page sizes
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in terms of performance or latency. Using `nimPages256` will limit the
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total amount of allocatable RAM.
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nimMemAlignTiny
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===============
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Sets `MemAlign` to `4` bytes which reduces the memory alignment
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to better match some embedded devices.
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Nim for realtime systems
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