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[Feat] Restore Percentage of Map in Memory functionality to r.in.pdal that was previously available in r.in.lidar #6741

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When processing point cloud data, some statistical analyses like skewness can be memory intensive. To reduce remediation of edge effects, it is more effective to process multiple tiles of LiDAR data as a single unit.

The previous option to limit the amount of memory used by specifying the percent of the map that could be processed in memory allowed for processing larger contiguous areas of LiDAR as a single unit on lower memory resourced computers.

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Add the option limiting the amount of map in memory for processing for r.in.pdal that is available in r.in.lidar and r.in.xyz
Describe alternatives you've considered

Processing LiDAR data in smaller segments.

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