Delete OrthoSize, and run the seeds in parallel

A span is as long across itself as its longest child, unless a rule beside it
already says how long it is -- and then reading the children answers nothing
and only makes its size depend on theirs. `OrthoSize::Full` was that second
case written twice, once as an enum on the span and once as the rule that
actually decides; `Painter::ruled` lets the span ask which it is in. The
widget under a rule still does not learn what the rule says, only that its
answer for that axis is not wanted.

The fuzzers grow, lay out and drop a tree within one seed, so the seeds share
nothing and take a thread each, one short of every core. Measured here: the
generated oracle's hundred seeds went from 68 s to 10 s, and a shrinker case
at 300 seeds from 18 s to 3.5 s. A seed that fails still shrinks and panics
on its own thread, and `std::thread::scope` carries that out.

The shrinker now allows the two steps the oracle already did -- the deeper
trees these grow reach a second composition, and a step is a thousandth of a
pixel.

Checked: fmt, clippy, 102 tests, all five shrinker cases at 300 seeds, 100
generated seeds, and five examples byte-identical at 1920x1200.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

core/src/ui/painter.rs

@@ -353,6 +353,20 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
         self.rsc.widgets().alignment(self.id)
     }
 
+    /// Whether a rule beside this widget settles its length on `axis`, which
+    /// makes whatever it reports for that axis moot. The widget under a rule
+    /// does not otherwise learn of it -- this is for a container deciding
+    /// whether reading its children across an axis is worth anything, since
+    /// reading one is also what makes its own size depend on it.
+    pub fn ruled(&self, axis: Axis) -> bool {
+        self.rsc
+            .widgets()
+            .size_rules(self.id)
+            .axis(axis)
+            .known()
+            .is_some()
+    }
+
     /// The part of this widget's box that something of `size` takes, at the
     /// near edge. A container that reports one child's size gives every child
     /// this, so what it draws is inside what it says it occupies.

src/random.rs

@@ -358,14 +358,17 @@ impl<Rsc: UiRsc + 'static> Grow<'_, Rsc> {
             children,
             dir,
             gap: Px::from_int(self.rng.below(3) as i32 * 4),
-            // Derive this from an existing choice: a seed must keep growing
-            // the same tree when the generator gains another configuration.
-            ortho: match dir.axis {
-                Axis::X => OrthoSize::Full,
-                Axis::Y => OrthoSize::Children,
-            },
         }
         .add(self.rsc);
+        // A row takes the height it is given rather than its tallest child,
+        // which is a rule beside it. Derived from an existing choice and
+        // consuming no randomness: a seed must keep growing the same tree
+        // when the generator gains another configuration.
+        if dir.axis == Axis::X {
+            self.rsc
+                .widgets_mut()
+                .set_size_rules(id, None, Some(Len::rel(1.0)));
+        }
         self.tree.ids.push(id.id());
         self.tree.spans.push(Spanned { id, spares, grown });
         id.add_strong(self.rsc)

src/widget/position/span.rs

@@ -1,21 +1,10 @@
 use crate::prelude::*;
 use std::marker::PhantomData;
 
-#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
-pub enum OrthoSize {
-    /// Reports one full relative length across the span's orthogonal axis,
-    /// whether or not its siblings also take space.
-    Full,
-    /// Reports its longest fixed child, or leftover space if any child scales.
-    #[default]
-    Children,
-}
-
 pub struct Span {
     pub children: Vec<StrongWidget>,
     pub dir: Dir,
     pub gap: Px,
-    pub ortho: OrthoSize,
 }
 
 impl Widget for Span {
@@ -90,6 +79,10 @@ impl Widget for Span {
             painter.holds(axis, holds);
         }
 
+        // Across itself a span is as long as its longest child -- unless a
+        // rule beside it already says how long it is, and then reading them
+        // answers nothing and makes its size depend on theirs for it.
+        let shrinks = !painter.ruled(!axis);
         let mut start = UiScalar::rel_min();
         let mut ortho = Len::ZERO;
         for (child, len) in self.children.iter().zip(&lens) {
@@ -119,7 +112,7 @@ impl Widget for Span {
                 region.flip(axis);
             }
             let placed = painter.widget_within(child, region);
-            if self.ortho == OrthoSize::Children {
+            if shrinks {
                 let used = placed.len(!axis);
                 // Choosing between a fixed and a relative length from the
                 // span's own eventual width admits multiple fixed points.
@@ -142,9 +135,9 @@ impl Widget for Span {
         // not give. Resolution happens at the nearest ancestor with a length,
         // and the root always has one.
         let along = total;
-        let ortho = match self.ortho {
+        let ortho = match shrinks {
-            OrthoSize::Full => Len::rel(1.0),
+            true => ortho,
-            OrthoSize::Children => ortho,
+            false => Len::rel(1.0),
         };
         Size::from_axis(axis, along, ortho)
     }
@@ -156,7 +149,6 @@ impl Span {
             children: Vec::new(),
             dir,
             gap: Px::ZERO,
-            ortho: OrthoSize::Children,
         }
     }
 
@@ -165,11 +157,6 @@ impl Span {
         self
     }
 
-    pub fn ortho(mut self, ortho: OrthoSize) -> Self {
-        self.ortho = ortho;
-        self
-    }
-
     pub fn push(&mut self, w: StrongWidget) {
         self.children.push(w);
     }
@@ -183,7 +170,6 @@ pub struct SpanBuilder<State, const LEN: usize, Wa: WidgetArrLike<State, LEN, Ta
     pub children: Wa,
     pub dir: Dir,
     pub gap: Px,
-    pub ortho: OrthoSize,
     _pd: PhantomData<(State, Tag)>,
 }
 
@@ -198,7 +184,6 @@ impl<Rsc, const LEN: usize, Wa: WidgetArrLike<Rsc, LEN, Tag>, Tag> WidgetFnTrait
             children: self.children.add(rsc).arr.into_iter().collect(),
             dir: self.dir,
             gap: self.gap,
-            ortho: self.ortho,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -211,7 +196,6 @@ impl<State, const LEN: usize, Wa: WidgetArrLike<State, LEN, Tag>, Tag>
             children,
             dir,
             gap: Px::ZERO,
-            ortho: OrthoSize::Children,
             _pd: PhantomData,
         }
     }
@@ -220,11 +204,6 @@ impl<State, const LEN: usize, Wa: WidgetArrLike<State, LEN, Tag>, Tag>
         self.gap = Px::from_num(gap);
         self
     }
-
-    pub fn ortho(mut self, ortho: OrthoSize) -> Self {
-        self.ortho = ortho;
-        self
-    }
 }
 
 impl std::ops::Deref for Span {

tests/cases/layout.rs

@@ -21,27 +21,21 @@ fn a_span_gives_each_child_the_width_it_asked_for() {
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn a_full_ortho_span_reports_relative_full() {
+fn a_span_ruled_across_itself_does_not_measure_its_children_there() {
     let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
     let child = rect(Color::RED).height(40).add(&mut h.rsc);
-    let span = (child,)
+    let span = (child,).span(Dir::RIGHT).height(rel(1.0)).add(&mut h.rsc);
-        .span(Dir::RIGHT)
-        .ortho(OrthoSize::Full)
-        .add(&mut h.rsc);
     h.set_root(span);
 
     assert_eq!(h.render.active[&span.id()].size.y, Len::rel(1.0));
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn a_children_ortho_span_reports_its_tallest_fixed_child() {
+fn a_span_reports_its_tallest_fixed_child() {
     let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
     let short = rect(Color::RED).height(40).add(&mut h.rsc);
     let tall = rect(Color::BLUE).height(70).add(&mut h.rsc);
-    let span = (short, tall)
+    let span = (short, tall).span(Dir::RIGHT).add(&mut h.rsc);
-        .span(Dir::RIGHT)
-        .ortho(OrthoSize::Children)
-        .add(&mut h.rsc);
     h.set_root(span);
 
     assert_eq!(h.render.active[&span.id()].size.y, Len::px(70.0));
@@ -211,10 +205,7 @@ fn a_box_with_a_fixed_length_can_be_stretched_on_its_other_axis() {
     let filler = rect(Color::GREEN).add(&mut h.rsc);
     // This column is an item in a row, so it takes the width left for it
     // rather than asking for a full row-width in addition to the bar.
-    let column = (row, filler)
+    let column = (row, filler).span(Dir::DOWN).add(&mut h.rsc);
-        .span(Dir::DOWN)
-        .ortho(OrthoSize::Children)
-        .add(&mut h.rsc);
     let bar = rect(Color::RED).width(100).add(&mut h.rsc);
     h.set_root((bar, column).span(Dir::RIGHT));
     assert_corners!(h, inner, (110, 10), (390, 30));

tests/cases/retained.rs

@@ -300,13 +300,10 @@ fn a_resize_does_not_redraw_what_the_shader_can_move() {
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn a_full_ortho_span_moves_its_child_without_redrawing_it() {
+fn a_span_ruled_across_itself_moves_its_child_without_redrawing_it() {
     let mut h = Harness::new((400, 200));
     let (leaf, draws) = counted(&mut h, Size::LEFTOVER, false);
-    let span = (leaf,)
+    let span = (leaf,).span(Dir::RIGHT).height(rel(1.0)).add(&mut h.rsc);
-        .span(Dir::RIGHT)
-        .ortho(OrthoSize::Full)
-        .add(&mut h.rsc);
     h.set_root(span);
     let settled = draws.get();
 

tests/cases/unsettled.rs

@@ -160,7 +160,6 @@ fn plant_pair(h: &mut Harness, swapped: bool) -> (Vec<WidgetId>, WeakWidget<Span
         children,
         dir: Dir::RIGHT,
         gap: Px::ZERO,
-        ortho: OrthoSize::Children,
     }
     .add(&mut h.rsc);
     let span_handle = span;
@@ -214,7 +213,6 @@ fn plant_scrolled(h: &mut Harness, swapped: bool) -> (Vec<WidgetId>, [WeakWidget
         children: inner_children,
         dir: Dir::RIGHT,
         gap: Px::ZERO,
-        ortho: OrthoSize::Children,
     }
     .add(&mut h.rsc);
     let block = rect(Color::RED).add(&mut h.rsc);
@@ -228,7 +226,6 @@ fn plant_scrolled(h: &mut Harness, swapped: bool) -> (Vec<WidgetId>, [WeakWidget
         children: outer_children,
         dir: Dir::RIGHT,
         gap: Px::ZERO,
-        ortho: OrthoSize::Children,
     }
     .add(&mut h.rsc);
     // Carried no rule even before rules were a property: it is here to be a
@@ -337,7 +334,6 @@ fn plant_boundary(h: &mut Harness, swapped: bool) -> (Vec<WidgetId>, [WeakWidget
         children: pair,
         dir: Dir::DOWN,
         gap: Px::ZERO,
-        ortho: OrthoSize::Children,
     }
     .add(&mut h.rsc);
     // Takes the whole box on its own, so the span above has nothing left to
@@ -357,7 +353,6 @@ fn plant_boundary(h: &mut Harness, swapped: bool) -> (Vec<WidgetId>, [WeakWidget
         children: inner_children,
         dir: Dir::DOWN,
         gap: Px::ZERO,
-        ortho: OrthoSize::Children,
     }
     .add(&mut h.rsc);
     h.rsc

tests/generated.rs

@@ -216,10 +216,9 @@ fn describe_widget(id: WidgetId, h: &Harness) -> String {
     if let Some(w) = any.downcast_ref::<Span>() {
         let sign = if w.dir.sign == Sign::Neg { "-" } else { "+" };
         return format!(
-            "Span{{dir:{:?}{sign},gap:{},ortho:{:?},n:{}}}",
+            "Span{{dir:{:?}{sign},gap:{},n:{}}}",
             w.dir.axis,
             w.gap,
-            w.ortho,
             w.children.len()
         );
     }
@@ -555,7 +554,7 @@ fn a_long_run_of_seeds_agrees() {
         .and_then(|seed| seed.parse().ok())
         .map(|seed| seed..=seed)
         .unwrap_or_else(|| 1..=env("IRIS_GENERATED_SEEDS", 100));
-    for seed in seeds {
+    over_seeds(seeds.collect(), |seed| {
         changed_size(seed);
         changed_every_size(seed);
         repainted_together(seed);
@@ -564,5 +563,23 @@ fn a_long_run_of_seeds_agrees() {
         for shuffle in SHUFFLES {
             reshuffled(seed, shuffle);
         }
+    });
 }
+
+/// Every seed on its own thread's share of them. A tree is grown, laid out
+/// and dropped inside one call, so seeds share nothing, and this is most of
+/// the time a run takes. A thread that fails takes the scope down with it,
+/// which is the same panic libtest would have seen.
+///
+/// One core short of all of them, so the machine this runs on stays usable.
+pub fn over_seeds(seeds: Vec<u64>, run: impl Fn(u64) + Sync) {
+    let threads =
+        std::thread::available_parallelism().map_or(1, |n| n.get().saturating_sub(1).max(1));
+    let chunk = seeds.len().div_ceil(threads).max(1);
+    std::thread::scope(|scope| {
+        for part in seeds.chunks(chunk) {
+            let run = &run;
+            scope.spawn(move || part.iter().for_each(|&seed| run(seed)));
+        }
+    });
 }

tests/shrink.rs

@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ const WORDS: &[&str] = &[
 const ONE_LINE: &str = "one line, overflowing whatever it is given";
 
 const OUTER: (f32, f32) = (1920.0, 1200.0);
+/// Steps of the grid two ways of reaching a box may differ by. See
+/// `docs/HANDOFF.md`'s "Fixed point" in `ai-app-2` for where the last of
+/// them is.
+const AGREE_STEPS: i32 = 2;
 const INNER: (f32, f32) = (640.0, 900.0);
 
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
@@ -120,12 +124,15 @@ impl Node {
                     children,
                     dir: dir(*down),
                     gap: Px::from_f32(*gap),
-                    ortho: match down {
-                        true => OrthoSize::Children,
-                        false => OrthoSize::Full,
-                    },
                 }
                 .add(&mut h.rsc);
+                // A row takes the height it is given; a column is as wide
+                // as its widest child, which needs no rule.
+                if !*down {
+                    h.rsc
+                        .widgets_mut()
+                        .set_size_rules(handle, None, Some(Len::rel(1.0)));
+                }
                 spans.push(handle);
                 handle.add_strong(&mut h.rsc)
             }
@@ -515,12 +522,13 @@ fn diverges(node: &Node, case: Case) -> Option<String> {
 
     for (i, (&w, &c)) in warm_ids.iter().zip(&cold_ids).enumerate() {
         let (got, want) = (warm.region(&w), cold.region(&c));
-        // To one step of the grid. A move or a resize lands on the same
+        // To a couple of steps of the grid, each a thousandth of a pixel: a
-        // number now; a length measured one way and composed another can
+        // move or a resize lands on the same number now, and a length
-        // still be a step apart.
+        // measured one way against the same length composed another can
+        // still be a step out per composition between them.
         let same = match (got, want) {
             (Some(g), Some(c)) => {
-                let d = |a: Px, b: Px| (a - b).abs() <= Px::STEP;
+                let d = |a: Px, b: Px| (a - b).abs() <= Px::STEP.mul_int(AGREE_STEPS);
                 d(g.top_left.x, c.top_left.x)
                     && d(g.top_left.y, c.top_left.y)
                     && d(g.bot_right.x, c.bot_right.x)
@@ -550,6 +558,22 @@ fn shrink(mut node: Node, case: Case) -> Node {
     }
 }
 
+/// One thread per core but one, each taking a share of the seeds: a tree is
+/// grown, laid out and dropped within a seed, so nothing is shared. A seed
+/// that fails shrinks on its own thread and panics there, which brings the
+/// scope down with it.
+fn over_seeds(seeds: Vec<u64>, run: impl Fn(u64) + Sync) {
+    let threads =
+        std::thread::available_parallelism().map_or(1, |n| n.get().saturating_sub(1).max(1));
+    let chunk = seeds.len().div_ceil(threads).max(1);
+    std::thread::scope(|scope| {
+        for part in seeds.chunks(chunk) {
+            let run = &run;
+            scope.spawn(move || part.iter().for_each(|&seed| run(seed)));
+        }
+    });
+}
+
 fn env<T: std::str::FromStr>(name: &str, fallback: T) -> T {
     std::env::var(name)
         .ok()
@@ -570,10 +594,10 @@ fn no_grown_tree_lays_out_differently_warm_than_cold() {
         _ => Case::Resize,
     };
 
-    for seed in 1..=seeds {
+    over_seeds((1..=seeds).collect(), |seed| {
         let node = grow(&mut Rng::new(seed), depth);
         let Some(how) = diverges(&node, case) else {
-            continue;
+            return;
         };
         let small = shrink(node.clone(), case);
         println!(
@@ -582,7 +606,7 @@ fn no_grown_tree_lays_out_differently_warm_than_cold() {
             small.size()
         );
         panic!("seed {seed} lays out differently warm than cold");
-    }
+    });
     let sizes: Vec<usize> = (1..=seeds)
         .map(|seed| grow(&mut Rng::new(seed), depth).size())
         .collect();