- speed optimization in color_add, PS fast_color_add and blur functions
- applying more bit and shift manipulation tricks to squeeze out just a bit more speed on color manipulation functions.
- Optimization on blur is based on work by @blazoncek
- Renamed PS fast_color_add() to fast_color_scaleAdd()
* Attempt at better bus memory calculation and estimation
* Remov double buffer count for ESP8266 (thanks @dedehai)
* improve UI calculation
* adding mendatory LED buffers to UI memory calculation
* adding buffer for transitions to memory calculation, change "error" to "warning"
* bugfixes in settings_leds.htm
* fix getDataSize() forESP8266, ESP8266 does not use double buffering.
* update led settings: fix parsing by @blazoncek
* new warnings for LED buffer use, deny adding a bus if it exceeds limits
* adds recommendations for users (reboot, disable transitions)
Co-authored-by: Blaž Kristan <blaz@kristan-sp.si>
* Improved heap and PSRAM handling
- Segment `allocateData()` uses more elaborate DRAM checking to reduce fragmentation and allow for larger setups to run on low heap
- Segment data allocation fails if minimum contiguous block size runs low to keep the UI working
- Increased `MAX_SEGMENT_DATA` to account for better segment data handling
- Memory allocation functions try to keep enough DRAM for segment data
- Added constant `PSRAM_THRESHOLD` to improve PSARM usage
- Increase MIN_HEAP_SIZE to reduce risk of breaking UI due to low memory for JSON response
- ESP32 makes use of IRAM (no 8bit access) for pixeluffers, freeing up to 50kB of RAM
- Fix to properly get available heap on all platforms: added function `getFreeHeapSize()`
- Bugfix for effects that divide by SEGLEN: don't run FX in service() if segment is not active
-Syntax fix in AR: calloc() uses (numelements, size) as arguments
* Added new functions for allocation and heap checking
- added `allocate_buffer()` function that can be used to allocate large buffers: takes parameters to set preferred ram location, including 32bit accessible RAM on ESP32. Returns null if heap runs low or switches to PSRAM
- getFreeHeapSize() and getContiguousFreeHeap() helper functions for all platforms to correctly report free useable heap
- updated some constants
- updated segment data allocation to free the data if it is large
- replaced "psramsafe" variable with it's #ifdef: BOARD_HAS_PSRAM and made accomodating changes
- added some compile-time checks to handle invalid env. definitions
- updated all allocation functions and some of the logic behind them
- added use of fast RTC-Memory where available
- increased MIN_HEAP_SIZE for all systems (improved stability in tests)
- updated memory calculation in web-UI to account for required segment buffer
- added UI alerts if buffer allocation fails
- made getUsedSegmentData() non-private (used in buffer alloc function)
- changed MAX_SEGMENT_DATA
- added more detailed memory log to DEBUG output
- added debug output to buffer alloc function
* updated color scaling to preserve hue at low brightness resulting in much better colors
* replace NPBlg with NPB, moved brightness scaling to bus manager
* improved gamma table calculation: fixed mismatch in inverting gamma table calculation: inversion should now be as good as it gets
* code cleanup, fixed gamma being applied in unnecessary places
Improvements to ABL handling:
- removed strip level handling, ist now all done on bus level
- limiter now respects pixel mapping
- proper handling of white channel
- improved current estimation
- current is now always correctly reported to UI
- minimal FPS impact if the ABL is not limiting but slighly higher impact for global ABL limit due to double-scaling
- moved brightness scaling to BusDigital
- created new header file colors.h to be able to access color functions in bus-manager.
- updated colo_fade() with better video scaling to preserve hue's at low brightness
- added IRAM_ATTR to color_fade (negligible speed impact when compared to inline and benefits other functions)
- added IRAM_ATTR to color_blend as it is used a lot throughout the code, did not test speed impact but adding it to color_fade made it almost on-par with an inlined function
Additional changes:
- fixes for properly handling `scaledBri()` (by @blazoncek)
- also use bit-shift instead of division in blending for ESP8266
- improvements for faster "softlight" calculation in blending
- changed some variables to uint8_t to maybe let the compiler optimize better, uint8_t can be faster if read, store and set are all done in uint8_t, which is the case in the ones I changed
- various minor code formatting changes
- Bugfixes in FX data allocation: realloc was not handled properly.
- Added *intermediate* fix for waitForIt(), see https://github.com/wled/WLED/issues/4779
- Bugfix in 1D->2D expansions: corner-expansion MUST be boundary checked as it blindly writes the max dimension
- removed some realloc(), improving fragmentation on large setups
- increased min heap constant
- ESP32 C3 has no PSRAM, it now uses default alloc functions
- also added missing UI info for "Error 7"
- Photoshop-style segment/layer blending
- return of strip ABL
- remove global LED buffer in favour of segment-local buffer
- new effect blending modes/transitions
- custom palettes moved out of WS2812FX class
- increased limits (matrix size, LED RAM)
- added "rainbow"-mode colorwheel
- replaced palettes with gamma unmodified ones
- move gamma adjustment to last step before sending to LEDs
- Segment & WS2812FX class reorganisation (mutable members, reordered members, protected members)
- Implement vector in bus manager
- Memory calculation according to explanation from @Makuna
- Prefer 8 RMT before 8 I2S on ESP32 (fixes#4380)
- speed improvements in ABL
- verbose debugging
- get bus size from NPB (prototype)
- Parallel I2S output bugfix
- automatic selection of appropriate I2S bus (`X1xxxxxxMethod`)
- removed I2S0 on ESP32 (used by AudioReactive)
- renumbered internal bus numbers (iType)
- added buffer size reporting
* changed some parameters to "pointer to const", so compiler can better optimize code size and performance - because data behind a const pointer will never be modified by the called function.
* made setPixelColor `const`
* fixed a few potentially uninitialized local vars (the may have random values if not initialized)
* avoid shadowing "state" in handleSerial()
* plus a few very minor improvements
