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Fr0zkaandClaude Opus 5 cf0319d480 perf(streaming): item 3 bought nothing, item 5 removed dead weight -- both worth knowing
Two WORK-NEXT items, one null result and one confirmed removal. Item 4 untouched.

ITEM 3 -- CANCEL OBSOLETE WORK AND PRIORITISE THE FLOOR: NULL RESULT
Clean -nullrhi, diagnostics off, 800 cm/s, 200 m of travel:

                          before            after
  request->ready p95      0.369117 s        0.367612 s
  queue wait p95          0.066949 s        0.064483 s
  generation p95          0.287926 s        0.283642 s
  p95 travel distance     2.952938 m        2.940894 m
  obsolete aborts                 0                12

Flat. Aborting obsolete tiles, sorting from the true pawn position and prioritising the
occupied/next tile changed request-to-ready by 0.4%.

⭐ AND THE NULL RESULT IS ITSELF THE FINDING. Look at the split: queue wait is 65 ms of a
368 ms p95; generation is 284 ms. **The queue was never the problem, so reordering it
cannot help.** Only 12 tiles in a 200 m run were obsolete enough to abort. The floor is
late because generation is slow, not because work is badly ordered -- item 3 establishes
that by exclusion, which is worth more than the 0.4%.

The machinery is kept: it is correct, it costs nothing, and it will matter once
generation is fast enough for ordering to be the binding constraint.

ITEM 5 -- VERDICT CACHE REMOVED. It was pure overhead.
Clean moving-session audit:

  outer  calls/probes/hits    2,109 / 2,109 / 0
  nested calls/probes/hits   19,904 / 19,904 / 0
  enclosing hits                              0
  stores 15,877, evictions 15,365

⇒ It stored 15,877 proofs, evicted 15,365 of them, and hit ZERO times. A moving player
visits unique regions; the cache was filling and thrashing a 512-entry table under a
global lock for no benefit. Same-binary A/B: request p95 0.367645 vs 0.365978,
generation p95 0.285559 vs 0.285992 -- neutral within noise, so its cost was the lock and
the linear scans rather than time we can see.

Removed: the global cache, its lock, the entry table, the invalidation path, the
cache-only profiler fields and the synthetic probe. The proof classifier stays.

⚠️ I asked for this cache two days ago on the strength of a commandlet measurement that
re-visited the same region repeatedly. That access pattern is nothing like a moving
player, and I should have said so when specifying it.

VERIFIED BY ME: build 0 errors; export 0.563 / 0.565 / 0.566 s (35de59b was 0.545-0.563,
flat as expected); geometry SHA-256 b3e5f4c3..9b377 UNCHANGED; capability 20,830 /
10,909, connected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012aheo2crrZmHuYtPpdY2Cb
2026-09-12 06:49:20 +02:00
Fr0zkaandClaude Opus 5 58bdfb32de docs: WORK-NEXT.md -- the queue after Sol's read-only audit
Ordered by importance then size. Sol (read-only, xhigh) audited experimental @ aa62971
against main and delivered the two-sentence diagnosis this queue is built on:

  "The operator abstraction leaked into the innermost loop, and streaming treats
   'work submitted/applied' as 'safe to stand on.'"

Two corrections it made to us, both recorded in the doc:

- The fall-through is NOT a removed correctness barrier. main has no spawn gate
  either, marks tiles loaded before applying, and collides only LOD0. It was fast
  enough to hide the race. The owner's evidence was real; the inference was not.
- The loop inversion did not recover the 8x because it traded PER-SAMPLE
  short-circuiting (~70% of deep-solid samples skipped the cave suite) for per-block
  pruning. The fix is lowering the operator graph into a fused evaluator, not more
  dispatch removal.

It also found that RMC cooks collision ASYNCHRONOUSLY and we never record
cook-complete -- apply_s ends at submission, so nothing we have ever measured says
when physics could actually collide.

Reading Plugins/RealtimeMeshComponent is now permitted for item 1, READ ONLY, by the
owner's decision.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012aheo2crrZmHuYtPpdY2Cb
2026-09-11 22:01:47 +02:00