Drop a multiply to the step below rather than rounding it

Bryan's call, 2026-09-16, taken for the cycles: a share now lands a
thousandth of a pixel short of its row instead of on it, which is less than
an even number of pixels draws.

`Fixed::mul` is a widening multiply and a shift, with the sign branch and the
half-step add gone. The two short-circuits priced against the old multiply go
with it: `UiSpan::within`'s test for a span that is the whole of its parent,
and `Fixed::scaled`'s test for nothing scaled by something, which was the
whole of `scaled` -- both cases come out of the truncating multiply unchanged,
and the bodies the comparisons cost were what kept the inliner from taking
`within` at all. `nm` is the check: `<UiSpan>::within` is a symbol in the
rounding head and in neither the float head nor this one.

`Holds::through` inverts the multiply, so its widening is re-derived: each
rounding now drops a whole step where it dropped half of one, which doubles
the allowance for the two routes to a length, and the multiply on the way in
drops only downward, so its own step goes at the top of the range alone. The
derived allowance for one truncation either side is measurably too narrow --
it excludes boxes drawings were made in, in eleven generated cases -- because
each route is a chain of multiplies rather than one.

Measured on the fixed-shape fixture (`Edits::fixed_branches`), seed 1 depth 8,
500 frames of `many`, medians of 25 runs of uninstrumented release binaries
with this VM's garbage `perf` readings dropped:

| | instructions | cycles | IPC |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| `5ed9e87`, the float head | 1,761M | 688M | 2.561 |
| `60367d8`, rounding | 1,915M | 777M | 2.465 |
| this | 1,800M | 715M | 2.516 |

-6.0% instructions and -8.0% cycles against `60367d8`, whose twenty-five work
counters are identical to this one's, so that pair is the same work at a
different speed. It leaves +2.2% and +3.9% against the float head, from
+8.7% and +12.9% -- but the float head draws 100 widgets to this one's 97 and
writes 4,272 primitives to 3,951, so that pair is not, and the remainder is
not all arithmetic.

Checked: fmt, clippy, 80 suite tests and 18 core unit tests, the release
oracle at 100 seeds, all fifteen shrinker cases at 400 seeds of depth 5 (seed
288 on `region-node` still failing, unchanged), and depth-6 oracle seeds 18
and 190 passing with 326 still failing. `view`, `minimal`, `text`, `random`
and the tab replay render byte-identical at 1920x1200; `tabs` differs on
4,664 of 2,304,000 pixels, single-pixel-wide runs along 80 columns of one
band of rounded rects, which is an antialiased edge moved less than a pixel.

Three tests say what changed rather than being relaxed: a multiply drops on
both sides of zero, a division cannot put back what it dropped, and an
unevenly nested row's shares stay contiguous and end at its edge with each
edge on the even division or one step below.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -282,26 +282,12 @@ impl UiSpan {
self.end += offset;
}
/// The whole of the box it sits in: a span that composes to nothing and
/// a parent that changes nothing.
pub const fn is_full(&self) -> bool {
self.start.rel.raw() == Rel::ZERO.raw()
&& self.start.px.raw() == Px::ZERO.raw()
&& self.end.rel.raw() == Rel::ONE.raw()
&& self.end.px.raw() == Px::ZERO.raw()
}
/// Composing a box through the one it sits in, and the hottest line in
/// layout. It used to skip the multiplies where a span was the whole of
/// its parent or the parent the whole of its own; both come out of the
/// multiply unchanged anyway, and the body those comparisons cost was
/// what kept the inliner from taking this at all.
pub const fn within(&self, parent: &Self) -> Self {
// A part that is the whole box is the box, and a box composed through
// the whole of its parent is itself. Both are exact -- multiplying by
// one rounds to what it started as -- and both are common enough to
// be worth four comparisons rather than four multiplies to find out.
if self.is_full() {
return *parent;
}
if parent.is_full() {
return *self;
}
Self {
start: self.start.within(parent),
end: self.end.within(parent),