Cold first-use per shader (queue ms): EvaluateFarField 1757, EmitNear 2429, FarConnectorRings 784, FarSkirts 507+975; the far EmitCS dropped 2327 -> 3.2 by splitting out the near midpoint fallback into EmitNearCS. Warm-up under 0xFF00 ~2.0 s (worker count and thread priority do not change it; 0xFFFF run: 1.71 s). Whole view median CPU 1.428 s vs hybrid 3.154 s. Audits unchanged. AMD DxCache was last written 2026-10-06 23:27 -- shaders may no longer be cached across launches (unverified). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MmSoF64BbRFmk9C3p1VsBJ