Optimizing PortalBase #59
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Sooo, PortalBase was never optimized. Thus it has gotten a bit bloated. It was designed with compatibility of old code in mind, and to that end it succeeded, but the library could be revamped to be smaller and more functional. I actually didn't think it would be used as heavily when I originally made a version for the MatrixPortal and then the other boards.
One of the major problems with the bloat is that it pushes many of the boards to their memory limits and I currently have a PR in place to freeze the library into CircuitPython. However, by making it smaller, this would free up some room on there.
Some of optimizing would be doing things like stripping out debug which is really unnecessary at this point and was a holdover from the original PyPortal library. Other things would be stripping out things like the "init everything at once approach" that was also a holdover from the original PyPortal library. It would mostly be writing the code to be more efficient and would likely be largely the same to the average user. I do really like the approach that was made with most of the boards in terms of adding text and would likely stick with that for the most part.
Before doing anything with this, I would like to hear other people's opinions.