process.memory() in console: JSON?

[espruino-discuss3]

Posted at 2020-08-18 by @allObjects

Picking a Pico from my stash of Espruino boards, I picked a 1v92 flashed one... what a great release this was, like the 1v96. Updated to 2.v06 and for obvious reason and curiosity I noticed two things:

1. The image selection dialog pop-up looks not that user friendly (anymore): the width is too narrow to show the drop-down box arrow. Some image short description text is so long that user has to scroll top the far right to get to it. Not a big deal, but is just not looking confidence fostering (see attached screenshot).

2. For curiosity, I checked / compared process.memory():

• 1v92 shows nice JSON in console
• 2v06 shows something mixed
  Where is the difference coming from?

1v92:

>process.memory()  // 1v92
={ "free": 5076, "usage": 24, "total": 5100, "history": 9,
  "stackEndAddress": 536958124,
  "flash_start": 134217728, "flash_binary_end": 376720,
  "flash_code_start": 134234112, "flash_length": 393216 }

2v06:

>process.memory() // 2v06
={ free: 5076, usage: 24, total: 5100, history: 7,
  gc: 0, gctime: 5.54466247558, blocksize: 16,
  "stackEndAddress": 536958184,
  flash_start: 134217728, "flash_binary_end": 386528,
  "flash_code_start": 134234112, flash_length: 393216 }

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Attachments:

• flashImageSelectionDialog.png

[espruino-discuss3]

Posted at 2020-08-19 by @gfwilliams

Thanks! I just fixed the IDE flasher size issue - it should go live next time I push an update to the website.

New builds should have the quoting issue fixed too - in order to quote correctly Espruino needed to check if the field name was a valid JS ID - the function to do that expected a C string and I'd made the buffer size for it 16 - so any variable name longer than 15 chars was just kept quoted, hence the ugliness :)

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Posted at 2020-08-19 by @allObjects

Great. Thanks for the fix and feedback.