Additional device for Espruino to support 8 pins in parallel (for discussion)

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JumJum

First of all, duplicating a function under a different name was not my intention.
The idea was, on a long term, to mark shiftOut and digitalWrite as deprecated and replace it with something like bytePort. The example for bytePort includes an option to have default handling and familiy specific handling. At least, this is the idea. And it is faster in sending data.
To get a better understanding of where time is going, I tested duration of the scan loop, and switched off one part after the other in source from the branch Gordon posted.
This is the result, looks like shifting out data is fast, but preparing options and GPIOs takes a lot of time. At least for ESP32.

scan loop			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
	shiftout Data(sfnc)		X	X	X	X	X	X	X
		set options for internal use	X	X	X	X	X	X
		set array of pins	X	X	X	X	X
		assign output, and pin mask	X	X	X	X
		set clock	X	X	X
		push data out	X	X
	set row address(dfnc)		X
duration(msec)			25,300	18,160	14,350	13,820	11,090	9,290	6,780	3,810

Additional device for Espruino to support 8 pins in parallel (for discussion)

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