iris: a List gives back its overscroll in the frame that found it

The last place in iris that corrected itself on a later frame, and the
item docs/IRIS_TODO.md carried from the Scroll change. Iris's rule:
"nothing in the framework should ever self heal because it should not be
drawn incorrectly in the first place. If you need 2 draws to get
something into the correct position then that should happen within the
same frame."

`clamp_to_content` measured the gap past the end of the content from the
edges the walk had just placed, wrote it to the anchor and asked for
another frame -- so one frame was drawn with the list past its own end,
and a fling that had already stopped was not going to ask for the frame
that fixed it. Now the walk outward from the anchor is `List::lay_out`,
`overscroll_gap` is a pure measurement of the same gap (no painter, no
redraw handle), and `draw` moves the anchor and walks a second time
inside the same frame.

One further pass always settles it: the gap comes from the edges the
first walk placed, so moving the anchor by it puts that edge exactly on
the viewport's, and the opposite end can only open a new gap when the
content is shorter than the viewport, which `overscroll_gap` declines to
touch. The second walk is paid only on an overscrolled frame and re-offers
every row the same cached-height box at a new offset, which `draw_inner`
dispatches as an O(1) move.

`Painter::draw_again` had no other caller and is removed with it, so the
framework no longer offers a way to ask for a corrective frame at all.

Simplification in the same change: a placement is one pinned edge plus a
height, so `Placement::edges(height)` gives the box and `place`'s
top-known and bottom-known cases stop being two copies of the same
arithmetic -- four match arms down to two.

Four tests draw no settling frame on purpose and fail without the change:
`fling_toward_the_start_stops_at_the_first_row` and the new
`scrolling_past_the_start_is_given_back_in_the_same_frame` (list.rs), and
`scrolling_past_the_first_row_settles_on_it` /
`scrolling_past_the_last_row_settles_on_it` (layer 1, top_edge.rs).

Verified: cargo fmt --check, clippy --workspace --all-targets clean,
cargo test --workspace and ./run-tests.sh green, the phone-shaped
headless window replaying flick-120hz.touch draws the transcript
correctly, and the arm64 release APK builds.

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

docs/DECISIONS.md

@@ -5,6 +5,21 @@ they can be judged and reversed later. Detail lives in RUST.md (and IRIS.md
 for iris API changes); this file is only the summary. Newest first. Items
 marked **DEFERRED** are ones the agent chose not to decide alone.
 
+## 2026-09-08 (later still: the list's overscroll clamp, in frame)
+
+Finishes the item the previous entry deferred. IRIS.md has the account.
+
+- **`List` lays out a second time within the frame** when its walk lands
+  off the end of the content, instead of writing the correction to the
+  anchor and asking for another frame. The extra walk is paid only on an
+  overscrolled frame, and it is mostly O(1) moves.
+- **`Painter::draw_again` is removed**, `List` having been its only
+  caller -- so the framework no longer offers a way to ask for a
+  corrective frame at all.
+- **`List::place`'s top-known and bottom-known cases are one path**
+  (`Placement::edges`), which is the "write the logic once" rule applied
+  to two symmetric directions rather than a behaviour change.
+
 ## 2026-09-08 (later: a scroll area measures and places in one frame)
 
 From Iris's phone report about the composer's padding while typing

docs/IRIS.md

@@ -12,6 +12,56 @@ things still stay out.
 An entry gives the date, what changed, why, and a short before/after where
 it helps judge the change without the session that made it. Newest first.
 
+## 2026-09-08 (later still): a `List` clamps its overscroll in the same frame, and `draw_again` is gone
+
+The last place in iris that corrected itself on a later frame. `List`'s
+walk outward from its anchor could end up off the end of its content --
+a fling stops wherever the spline's last step left it, and a `scroll` is
+deliberately unclamped because nothing at the moment of the call knows
+where the content ends. `clamp_to_content` measured that gap from the
+edges the walk had just placed, wrote it to the anchor, and asked for
+another frame. So one frame was drawn with the content past its own end,
+and on Iris's phone a hard fling to the top left the whole screen blank
+until something asked for that frame -- which a fling that has stopped no
+longer does.
+
+It is the same shape as `Scroll`'s fix. The walk is now `List::lay_out`,
+and `List::draw` runs it, asks `overscroll_gap` whether the layout landed
+off the end, and on a gap moves the anchor and runs the walk **again,
+inside the same frame**. `overscroll_gap` is a pure measurement -- no
+painter, no redraw handle -- and the decision to lay out again is `draw`'s.
+
+Three properties make the second pass cheap and correct:
+
+- **It runs only on a frame that actually overscrolled.** An ordinary
+  scroll tick still walks once.
+- **One further pass always settles it.** The gap is measured from the
+  edges the first walk placed, so moving the anchor by it puts that edge
+  exactly on the viewport's; the opposite end can only open a new gap if
+  the content is shorter than the viewport, which `overscroll_gap`
+  declines to touch at all (a short list is bottom-anchored on purpose).
+- **The second walk is mostly moves.** Every row keeps the box its cached
+  height gives it and only its offset changes, which is `draw_inner`'s
+  O(1) `mov` path.
+
+**Public surface: `Painter::draw_again` is removed.** `List` was its only
+caller, so with this there is no "ask for a corrective frame" mechanism in
+the framework -- which is the point, since reaching for one is the sign a
+placement should have been redone inside the draw that discovered the
+problem.
+
+`List::place` also lost half its body to the same simplification the rule
+suggests: a placement is one pinned edge plus a height, so `Placement::
+edges(height)` gives the box and the top-known and bottom-known cases stop
+being two copies of the same arithmetic.
+
+Tests that draw no settling frame on purpose, and fail without the change:
+`fling_toward_the_start_stops_at_the_first_row` and the new
+`scrolling_past_the_start_is_given_back_in_the_same_frame` in `list.rs`,
+and `scrolling_past_the_first_row_settles_on_it` /
+`scrolling_past_the_last_row_settles_on_it` at layer 1
+(`transcript-fixture/tests/top_edge.rs`).
+
 ## 2026-09-08 (later): a `Scroll` measures and places its content in one frame
 
 Iris's phone: "when typing with the keyboard up and entering enough

docs/IRIS_TODO.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ order and what "done" looks like. Tick and date them in place.
 
 ## Fix
 
-- [ ] **`List::clamp_to_content` still corrects on the next frame
+- [x] **`List::clamp_to_content` still corrects on the next frame
   (2026-09-08).** Iris's rule, stated while the composer's caret was
   being fixed: "nothing in the framework should ever self heal because
   it should not be drawn incorrectly in the first place. If you need 2
@@ -15,15 +15,26 @@ order and what "done" looks like. Tick and date them in place.
   happen within the same frame. Layout should never be frame dependent,
   it should be a pure function of the state." `Scroll::draw` was brought
   to that rule the same day (it measures its content and places it
-  again in the one frame, IRIS.md's entry). `List::clamp_to_content` is
+  again in the one frame, IRIS.md's entry). Done for `List` later the
-  the one place left that has not been: it discovers a fling has run
+  same day: the walk outward from the anchor is now `List::lay_out`, and
-  past the content's end, calls `scroll(gap)` and `Painter::draw_again`,
+  `draw` runs it, asks `overscroll_gap` (a pure measurement, no painter
-  and asks its own `RequestRedraw` handle for a frame -- so one frame is
+  and no redraw handle) whether the layout landed off the end of the
-  drawn with the content past its end and the next one snaps it back.
+  content, and on a gap moves the anchor and runs the walk a second time
-  The fix is the same shape as `Scroll`'s: re-place inside the draw that
+  **inside the same frame**. `Painter::draw_again` had no other caller
-  found the gap. Not done in the same change because `List::place` is a
+  and is gone with it, so there is now no "ask for a corrective frame"
-  larger piece of machinery than `Scroll::draw` and this deserves its
+  mechanism in the framework at all. One further pass always settles it:
-  own before/after on the phone.
+  the gap is measured from the edges the walk actually placed, so moving
+  the anchor by it puts that edge exactly on the viewport's, and the
+  opposite end cannot open a new gap without the content being shorter
+  than the viewport, which `overscroll_gap` declines to touch. The extra
+  walk is paid only on an overscrolled frame and re-offers every row the
+  same box at a new offset, which `draw_inner` dispatches as an O(1)
+  move. Three tests draw no settling frame on purpose and fail without
+  the change: `fling_toward_the_start_stops_at_the_first_row`,
+  `scrolling_past_the_start_is_given_back_in_the_same_frame` (both in
+  `list.rs`) and `scrolling_past_the_first_row_settles_on_it` /
+  `scrolling_past_the_last_row_settles_on_it` (layer 1,
+  `transcript-fixture/tests/top_edge.rs`).
 
 - [x] **`request_device` asked for compute-shader limits it never uses
   (2026-09-05).** `Limits::default()` (both `iris/src/android/render.rs`
@@ -1124,7 +1135,7 @@ do not duplicate it there.
      **past its own first row** (`fling_toward_the_start_stops_at_the_
      first_row` was leaving it 1398px below a 600px viewport, a blank
      screen, and that test's own assertion could not see it).
-     `clamp_to_content` gives the gap back. Both ends:
+     the overscroll clamp gives the gap back. Both ends:
      `scrolling_past_the_first_row_settles_on_it`,
      `scrolling_past_the_last_row_settles_on_it`. This is also the first
      item of the later report below.
@@ -1140,7 +1151,7 @@ do not duplicate it there.
 ## From the phone, 2026-09-07, later (build from 4274b8b, ai-app-bench b47eb73)
 
 - [x] **"You shouldn't be able to scroll below the bottom (or above
-  top)."** Done in e922b73, as `List::clamp_to_content` rather than as a
+  top)."** Done in e922b73, as a clamp in `List::draw` rather than as a
   clamp inside the scroll setter: nothing at the moment of a `scroll`
   call knows where the content ends (that is what walking the rows finds
   out), so the correction is measured from the ends the layout walk

docs/RUST.md

@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ a change landed the way it did.
   `fonts.xml` monospace declaration against fontique's actually-scanned
   families, Android-only, verified `mono=Some("Droid Sans Mono")` on this
   checkout's emulator.
-- [x] Scroll clamped at both ends (e922b73, `List::clamp_to_content`)
+- [x] Scroll clamped at both ends (e922b73, `List`'s overscroll clamp)
   and Compose's velocity estimator (docs/IRIS_TODO.md, 2026-09-07
   later). Ticked 2026-09-08 against those entries, which were already
   `[x]` while this box was not. Two things this box's own wording had

iris/core/src/ui/painter.rs

@@ -166,21 +166,6 @@ impl<'a> Painter<'a> {
         self.mask = self.own_mask;
     }
 
-    /// Ask for this widget to be drawn again on the next frame, from
-    /// inside its own `draw` -- for a layout that can only discover a
-    /// correction to itself by laying out once (`List::clamp_to_content`,
-    /// which learns how far past its content the list is from the walk it
-    /// has just done). The mark is the same one `Widgets::get_dyn_mut`
-    /// sets, so `UiRenderState::update` picks it up exactly as it does any
-    /// other dirty widget; it does **not** by itself ask the platform for
-    /// a frame, which is the caller's own `RequestRedraw` handle.
-    ///
-    /// The correction it asks for must converge, or this is a widget that
-    /// redraws forever.
-    pub fn draw_again(&mut self) {
-        self.rsc.widgets_mut().needs_redraw.insert(self.id);
-    }
-
     /// Whether anything is clipping what this widget draws -- its own
     /// [`Self::set_mask`], or one an ancestor set that it inherited. What
     /// a widget whose contents may legitimately extend past its own box

iris/src/widget/list.rs

@@ -104,12 +104,14 @@
 //! that "whatever lies between" stays empty however far the list is
 //! panned.
 //!
-//! **Overscroll is taken back on the next frame, never rubber-banded.** A
+//! **Overscroll is taken back within the frame, never rubber-banded.** A
-//! `scroll()` or a fling past the first or last row leaves a gap for one
+//! `scroll()` or a fling past the first or last row leaves a gap;
-//! frame; `clamp_to_content` measures it from the ends the walk already
+//! `overscroll_gap` measures it from the ends the walk already placed, and
-//! placed and gives it back (the same one-frame-lag `Scroll`'s content
+//! `draw` moves the anchor by it and walks a second time before the frame
-//! length has, per LAYOUT.md). A list shorter than its viewport is not
+//! ends -- layout is a pure function of the state, not of how many frames
-//! overscrolled and is left alone, still bottom-anchored.
+//! have been drawn (Iris, 2026-09-08), the same rule `Scroll::draw`
+//! follows. A list shorter than its viewport is not overscrolled and is
+//! left alone, still bottom-anchored.
 
 use crate::prelude::*;
 use iris_core::util::HashMap;
@@ -180,17 +182,31 @@ struct RowExtent {
     bottom: f32,
 }
 
+/// Which of a row's edges the walk already knows, and where it is. The
+/// two are symmetric -- one pinned edge plus a height gives the box --
+/// so `place` parameterises over them through [`Self::edges`] rather
+/// than carrying a copy of the same logic per direction.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
 enum Placement {
     /// This row's leading edge is known; its trailing edge is wherever its
-    /// natural size puts it. Placed directly with `widget_within`.
+    /// own height puts it.
     Top(f32),
-    /// This row's trailing edge is known; its leading edge depends on a
+    /// This row's trailing edge is known; its leading edge is that height
-    /// size not yet learned. Placed by measuring at the full offered
+    /// back from it.
-    /// region first, then `reposition`ing -- the same two-step `Aligned`
-    /// already uses for the identical problem.
     Bottom(f32),
 }
 
+impl Placement {
+    /// The `(leading, trailing)` edges this placement implies for a row
+    /// of `height`.
+    fn edges(self, height: f32) -> (f32, f32) {
+        match self {
+            Placement::Top(top) => (top, top + height),
+            Placement::Bottom(bottom) => (bottom - height, bottom),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// A virtualised, bottom-anchored list of variable-height rows. See the
 /// module doc for the design.
 pub struct List {
@@ -406,8 +422,9 @@ impl List {
     /// Move the anchor's edge by `amt` pixels. Positive moves later
     /// content into view (mirrors `Scroll::scroll`'s sign convention).
     /// Unclamped here, on purpose: it is one write, and there is nothing
-    /// at this point that knows where the content ends. The next `draw`
+    /// at this point that knows where the content ends. The `draw` that
-    /// gives back whatever this moved past ([`Self::clamp_to_content`]).
+    /// follows gives back whatever this moved past, in that same frame
+    /// ([`Self::overscroll_gap`]).
     pub fn scroll(&mut self, amt: f32) {
         if let Some(a) = &mut self.anchor {
             a.offset -= amt;
@@ -804,14 +821,15 @@ impl List {
         });
     }
 
-    /// Take back an empty band at one edge that content on the other side
+    /// The empty band at one edge that content on the other side of the
-    /// of the viewport could fill -- the correction that makes a `scroll`
+    /// viewport could fill -- positive to move content toward the leading
-    /// or a fling past the end of the content settle *on* the end rather
+    /// edge -- or `None` when the layout already sits on its content.
-    /// than beyond it.
+    /// This is what makes a `scroll` or a fling past the end of the
+    /// content settle *on* the end rather than beyond it.
     ///
-    /// `top`/`bottom` are the extreme edges this frame's walk actually
+    /// `top`/`bottom` are the extreme edges the walk actually placed, so
-    /// placed, so the gap is already measured: `at_start` means nothing is
+    /// the gap is already measured: `at_start` means nothing is above
-    /// above `top`, and if `top` is nevertheless below the viewport's own
+    /// `top`, and if `top` is nevertheless below the viewport's own
     /// leading edge then those pixels are empty and always will be. This
     /// is the whole of what the module doc used to list as deliberately
     /// unsolved ("no overscroll clamping ... nothing to measure how much
@@ -829,19 +847,9 @@ impl List {
     /// the space is not overscroll at all -- it is a bottom-anchored list
     /// with three rows in it, and pulling those to the top would be this
     /// widget rejecting its own default (`repair_anchor`).
-    ///
+    fn overscroll_gap(&self, top: f32, bottom: f32) -> Option<f32> {
-    /// Applied to the anchor, so it lands on the *next* frame rather than
-    /// re-running this one -- which means one frame is drawn with the
-    /// content past its own end, and **that is a deviation from the rule
-    /// that layout is a pure function of the state rather than of how
-    /// many frames have been drawn** (Iris, 2026-09-08; `Scroll::draw`
-    /// used to lag the same way and no longer does, so this is now the
-    /// only place left). docs/IRIS_TODO.md carries it; the fix is the
-    /// same shape as `Scroll`'s -- re-place within this frame instead of
-    /// marking the next one.
-    fn clamp_to_content(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter, top: f32, bottom: f32) {
         if self.at_start == self.at_end {
-            return;
+            return None;
         }
         // `at_start`/`at_end` already carry the sign of their own gap
         // (`top >= 0.0`, `bottom <= viewport_len`), so this is the gap
@@ -852,21 +860,76 @@ impl List {
             bottom - self.viewport_len
         };
         // Sub-pixel gaps are what floating-point row heights leave behind
-        // every frame; correcting one would ask for another frame, which
+        // every frame; laying out again for one would leave another, and
-        // would leave another, and the list would never stop redrawing.
+        // the list would never settle.
-        if gap.abs() < 0.5 {
+        (gap.abs() >= 0.5).then_some(gap)
-            return;
+    }
+
+    /// Place every row that reaches the viewport, outward from the
+    /// anchor, and return the extreme `(leading, trailing)` edges the walk
+    /// reached. Rebuilds `extents` and `at_start`/`at_end` from what it
+    /// placed; the caller clears `extents` first, since `reanchor_at_tap`
+    /// reads the previous frame's copy.
+    ///
+    /// Called a second time in the same `draw` when the first pass lands
+    /// off the end of the content -- see [`Self::overscroll_gap`] and
+    /// `draw`.
+    fn lay_out(&mut self, painter: &mut Painter) -> (f32, f32) {
+        let anchor = self
+            .anchor
+            .expect("lay_out with no anchor: `draw` returns before this without one");
+        let placement = match anchor.edge {
+            Edge::Top => Placement::Top(anchor.offset),
+            Edge::Bottom => Placement::Bottom(anchor.offset),
+        };
+        let (mut top, mut bottom) = self.place(painter, anchor.slot, placement);
+
+        let mut idx_top = anchor.slot;
+        while top > 0.0 {
+            let Some(prev) = self.prev_slot(idx_top) else {
+                break;
+            };
+            let (t, _) = self.place(painter, prev, Placement::Bottom(top));
+            top = t;
+            idx_top = prev;
         }
-        self.scroll(gap);
+
-        // Nothing else will ask: the frame this correction was discovered
+        let mut idx_bottom = anchor.slot;
-        // in has already been laid out, and a fling that ran out at an end
+        while bottom < self.viewport_len {
-        // (`tick_fling`'s `hit_bound`) has stopped requesting frames --
+            let Some(next) = self.next_slot(idx_bottom) else {
-        // which is exactly the case that left the list parked past its own
+                break;
-        // first row.
+            };
-        painter.draw_again();
+            let (_, b) = self.place(painter, next, Placement::Top(bottom));
-        if let Some(redraw) = &self.redraw {
+            bottom = b;
-            redraw.request_redraw();
+            idx_bottom = next;
         }
+
+        // What `tick_fling` clamps a fling against -- see `at_start`'s
+        // field doc. `top`/`bottom` are the extreme edges actually placed
+        // this frame, and `prev_slot`/`next_slot` returning `None` is what
+        // "no more content" means everywhere else in this widget.
+        self.at_start = self.prev_slot(idx_top).is_none() && top >= 0.0;
+        self.at_end = self.next_slot(idx_bottom).is_none() && bottom <= self.viewport_len;
+
+        // Both halves of `intersects_viewport`'s rule, checked where they
+        // are cheap to check: what this pass put on screen is exactly what
+        // overlaps the viewport, and nothing above or below it can be
+        // seen. The first failed silently for a whole build -- an
+        // off-screen row draws correctly, it is just in the wrong place.
+        // `assert!` for R1's reason: it walks the rows *on screen*, a
+        // handful, once per draw, and a release build is the only build
+        // this fault has ever been seen in.
+        assert!(
+            self.extents
+                .values()
+                .all(|e| self.intersects_viewport(e.top, e.bottom)),
+            "a row outside the viewport (0..{}) is recorded as on screen: {:?}",
+            self.viewport_len,
+            self.extents
+                .values()
+                .find(|e| !self.intersects_viewport(e.top, e.bottom)),
+        );
+        (top, bottom)
     }
 
     fn update_snap_end(&mut self) {
@@ -985,71 +1048,60 @@ impl List {
         // below is recorded from the intersection test rather than from
         // "was this drawn".
         if let Some(h) = cached {
-            let (top, bottom) = match placement {
+            let (top, bottom) = placement.edges(h);
-                Placement::Top(top) => (top, top + h),
-                Placement::Bottom(bottom) => (bottom - h, bottom),
-            };
             if !self.intersects_viewport(top, bottom) {
                 return (top, bottom);
             }
         }
 
-        let (top, bottom, height) = match (placement, cached) {
+        let widget = self.slot_widget(slot);
-            (Placement::Top(top), Some(h)) => {
+        let height = match cached {
-                // Offered a box sized to the *cached* height (cheap to
+            // Offered a box sized to the *cached* height (cheap to compare
-                // compare against last frame's offer, see `place`'s doc),
+            // against last frame's offer, see `place`'s doc), but the
-                // but the returned/recorded height comes from what this
+            // height kept is what this draw actually reported -- if the
-                // draw actually reported -- if the row's real content grew
+            // row's real content grew since it was cached (and was
-                // since it was cached (and was therefore redrawn: an
+            // therefore redrawn: an unchanged widget never disagrees with
-                // unchanged widget never disagrees with its own cache),
+            // its own cache), it is drawn again here, this frame, at the
-                // this frame already reflects the new size rather than
+            // box its own height implies rather than waiting a frame to
-                // waiting a frame to self-correct.
+            // self-correct.
-                let region = Self::abs_region(axis, top, top + h);
+            Some(h) => {
-                let used = painter.widget_within(self.slot_widget(slot), region);
+                let (top, bottom) = placement.edges(h);
+                let used = painter.widget_within(widget, Self::abs_region(axis, top, bottom));
                 let height = resolve(used);
                 if height != h {
-                    let corrected = Self::abs_region(axis, top, top + height);
+                    let (top, bottom) = placement.edges(height);
-                    painter.widget_within(self.slot_widget(slot), corrected);
+                    painter.widget_within(widget, Self::abs_region(axis, top, bottom));
                 }
-                (top, top + height, height)
+                height
             }
-            (Placement::Top(top), None) => {
+            // Never measured, so there is no height to place it at: it is
-                let first = Self::abs_region(axis, top, top + GENEROUS_PADDING);
+            // measured at an oversized region first and drawn again at the
+            // box that measurement implies (`draw_twice`, not
+            // `reposition`, which writes an offset and never a size).
+            //
+            // A bottom-known row measures at a *zero-anchored* region
+            // rather than at its own box: using the real box would make
+            // the measurement's offered size track this list's own height,
+            // so a sibling growing taller (the input-box case) would look
+            // like a resize to every bottom-known row and force a full
+            // redraw of each -- despite a row's content depending only on
+            // width.
+            None => {
+                let measure_from = match placement {
+                    Placement::Top(top) => top,
+                    Placement::Bottom(_) => 0.0,
+                };
+                let first = Self::abs_region(axis, measure_from, measure_from + GENEROUS_PADDING);
                 let mut height = 0.0;
-                painter.draw_twice(self.slot_widget(slot), first, |used| {
+                painter.draw_twice(widget, first, |used| {
                     height = resolve(used);
-                    Self::abs_region(axis, top, top + height)
+                    let (top, bottom) = placement.edges(height);
+                    Self::abs_region(axis, top, bottom)
                 });
-                (top, top + height, height)
+                height
-            }
-            (Placement::Bottom(bottom), Some(h)) => {
-                let region = Self::abs_region(axis, bottom - h, bottom);
-                let used = painter.widget_within(self.slot_widget(slot), region);
-                let height = resolve(used);
-                if height != h {
-                    let corrected = Self::abs_region(axis, bottom - height, bottom);
-                    painter.widget_within(self.slot_widget(slot), corrected);
-                }
-                (bottom - height, bottom, height)
-            }
-            (Placement::Bottom(bottom), None) => {
-                // Measured at a fixed, zero-anchored region rather than
-                // `painter.region()` (the list's *actual* offered box):
-                // using the real box would make the measurement's offered
-                // *size* track this list's own height, so a sibling
-                // growing taller (the input-box case) would look like a
-                // resize to every bottom-known row and force a full
-                // redraw of each -- despite a row's content depending
-                // only on width.
-                let first = Self::abs_region(axis, 0.0, GENEROUS_PADDING);
-                let mut height = 0.0;
-                painter.draw_twice(self.slot_widget(slot), first, |used| {
-                    height = resolve(used);
-                    Self::abs_region(axis, bottom - height, bottom)
-                });
-                (bottom - height, bottom, height)
             }
         };
+        let (top, bottom) = placement.edges(height);
         if let Some(k) = key {
             self.heights.insert(k, height);
             // `extents` is what is *on screen* (`key_at`'s doc, and
@@ -1115,10 +1167,10 @@ impl Widget for List {
         self.viewport_len = painter.region().axis(axis).len().to_abs(output_len);
 
         self.repair_anchor();
-        let Some(mut anchor) = self.anchor else {
+        if self.anchor.is_none() {
             self.extents.clear();
             return Size::REST;
-        };
+        }
 
         // `reanchor_at_tap` reads `extents` as they stood after the
         // *previous* frame's layout -- the last on-screen box for each
@@ -1126,63 +1178,38 @@ impl Widget for List {
         // frame has to wait until after this call, not before.
         if let Some(tap) = self.pending_tap.take() {
             self.reanchor_at_tap(tap);
-            anchor = self.anchor.unwrap();
         }
         self.extents.clear();
 
-        let placement = match anchor.edge {
+        let (top, bottom) = self.lay_out(painter);
-            Edge::Top => Placement::Top(anchor.offset),
-            Edge::Bottom => Placement::Bottom(anchor.offset),
-        };
-        let (mut top, mut bottom) = self.place(painter, anchor.slot, placement);
 
-        let mut idx_top = anchor.slot;
+        // **The clamp is applied inside the frame that found it**, not
-        while top > 0.0 {
+        // marked for the next one: layout is a pure function of the state
-            let Some(prev) = self.prev_slot(idx_top) else {
+        // rather than of how many frames have been drawn (Iris,
-                break;
+        // 2026-09-08), and a correction that lands next frame is a frame
-            };
+        // drawn wrong -- with nothing guaranteed to ask for that next
-            let (t, _) = self.place(painter, prev, Placement::Bottom(top));
+        // frame, since a fling that ran out at an end has already stopped
-            top = t;
+        // requesting them, which is exactly what left the list parked past
-            idx_top = prev;
+        // its own first row. Same shape as `Scroll::draw`, which measures
+        // its content and places it again in the one frame.
+        //
+        // One further pass settles it, always: the gap is measured from
+        // the edges this walk actually placed, so moving the anchor by it
+        // puts that edge exactly on the viewport's, and the rows the
+        // second walk brings into view are placed outward from there. The
+        // opposite end cannot open a new gap -- that would mean the
+        // content is shorter than the viewport, which `overscroll_gap`
+        // already declines to touch. The extra walk is paid only on a
+        // frame that was overscrolled, and it re-offers every row the same
+        // box at a new offset, which `draw_inner` dispatches as an O(1)
+        // move.
+        if let Some(gap) = self.overscroll_gap(top, bottom) {
+            self.scroll(gap);
+            self.extents.clear();
+            self.lay_out(painter);
         }
 
-        let mut idx_bottom = anchor.slot;
-        while bottom < self.viewport_len {
-            let Some(next) = self.next_slot(idx_bottom) else {
-                break;
-            };
-            let (_, b) = self.place(painter, next, Placement::Top(bottom));
-            bottom = b;
-            idx_bottom = next;
-        }
-
-        // What `tick_fling` clamps a fling against -- see `at_start`'s
-        // field doc. `top`/`bottom` are the extreme edges actually placed
-        // this frame, and `prev_slot`/`next_slot` returning `None` is what
-        // "no more content" means everywhere else in this widget.
-        self.at_start = self.prev_slot(idx_top).is_none() && top >= 0.0;
-        self.at_end = self.next_slot(idx_bottom).is_none() && bottom <= self.viewport_len;
-
-        // Both halves of `intersects_viewport`'s rule, checked where they
-        // are cheap to check: what this frame put on screen is exactly
-        // what overlaps the viewport, and nothing above or below it can
-        // be seen. The first failed silently for a whole build -- an
-        // off-screen row draws correctly, it is just in the wrong place.
-        // `assert!` for R1's reason: it walks the rows *on screen*, a
-        // handful, once per draw, and a release build is the only build
-        // this fault has ever been seen in.
-        assert!(
-            self.extents
-                .values()
-                .all(|e| self.intersects_viewport(e.top, e.bottom)),
-            "a row outside the viewport (0..{}) is recorded as on screen: {:?}",
-            self.viewport_len,
-            self.extents
-                .values()
-                .find(|e| !self.intersects_viewport(e.top, e.bottom)),
-        );
         self.rehome_anchor();
-        self.clamp_to_content(painter, top, bottom);
         self.update_snap_end();
         Size::REST
     }
@@ -1256,7 +1283,7 @@ mod tests {
 
     /// The case the top-edge cull and the overscroll clamp both had no
     /// reason to touch: fewer rows than fit. Every one of them is drawn
-    /// (nothing here is outside the viewport), and `clamp_to_content`
+    /// (nothing here is outside the viewport), and `overscroll_gap`
     /// leaves the list bottom-anchored -- the gap above the first row is
     /// not overscroll, it is where this widget puts a short list, and
     /// pulling it to the top would be the clamp overriding
@@ -1605,8 +1632,9 @@ mod tests {
 
             // Backwards, into content that exists: a list opens flush with
             // its newest end, so scrolling *forward* from there is
-            // overscroll, and `clamp_to_content` lays out a second time to
+            // overscroll, and the clamp lays out a second time within the
-            // give it back -- a correct extra pass, but not the ordinary
+            // frame to give it back -- a correct extra pass, but not the
+            // ordinary
             // scroll tick whose cost this test is about.
             rsc.ui.widgets.get_mut(&list_weak).unwrap().scroll(-5.0);
             render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
@@ -2146,6 +2174,34 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!((before.top, before.bottom), (after.top, after.bottom));
     }
 
+    /// The clamp on the frame that discovers it, for an ordinary
+    /// `scroll` rather than a fling: one `update` after moving 100,000px
+    /// past the first row, and the list is already flush with the top.
+    /// The old code left that frame drawn with the whole screen blank and
+    /// snapped back on the next one, so this fails on it -- it draws no
+    /// settling frame on purpose (the same shape as
+    /// `phone_screen.rs`'s composer test).
+    #[test]
+    fn scrolling_past_the_start_is_given_back_in_the_same_frame() {
+        let mut rsc = TestRsc {
+            ui: UiData::default(),
+        };
+        let (list_weak, root, mut render) = build_flingable_list(&mut rsc);
+        rsc.ui
+            .widgets
+            .get_mut(&list_weak)
+            .unwrap()
+            .scroll(-100_000.0);
+        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+        let list_ref = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap();
+        let first = list_ref.extents[&0];
+        assert!(
+            first.top.abs() < 0.5,
+            "the frame that overscrolled should end flush with the first row, not {}px from it",
+            first.top,
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn fling_toward_the_start_stops_at_the_first_row() {
         let mut rsc = TestRsc {
@@ -2165,10 +2221,11 @@ mod tests {
                 break;
             }
         }
-        // The frame that gives back whatever the fling's last step spent
+        // No settling frame: the draw that discovers the fling ran past
-        // past the first row -- `clamp_to_content` writes the anchor at
+        // the first row gives those pixels back inside that same frame
-        // the end of a draw, so it lands on the next one.
+        // (`overscroll_gap`), so the last frame the loop above drew is
-        render.update(&root, &mut rsc);
+        // already flush with the top. Drawing one more here would hide a
+        // regression to the old next-frame correction.
         let list_ref = rsc.ui.widgets.get(&list_weak).unwrap();
         assert!(
             list_ref.at_start,

iris/transcript-fixture/tests/top_edge.rs

@@ -279,8 +279,8 @@ fn the_row_across_the_bottom_edge_is_drawn() {
 
 /// Panning past the first row settles *on* it rather than beyond it. The
 /// list is scrolled far further back than the fixture is long, which is
-/// what a hard fling toward the top does; before `List::clamp_to_content`
+/// what a hard fling toward the top does; before the clamp existed it
-/// it stayed wherever that left it -- the phone's "black from the header
+/// stayed wherever that left it -- the phone's "black from the header
 /// down", and a whole blank screen in `iris`'s own
 /// `fling_toward_the_start_stops_at_the_first_row`.
 #[test]
@@ -292,10 +292,10 @@ fn scrolling_past_the_first_row_settles_on_it() {
     for _ in 0..60 {
         t = scrolled(&mut h, &screen, -100_000.0, t);
     }
-    // The correction is written at the end of a draw and lands on the
+    // No settling frame on purpose: the draw that discovers the gap gives
-    // next one.
+    // it back inside that same frame (`List::overscroll_gap`), so the last
-    h.frame(t);
+    // frame `scrolled` drew is already flush with the first row. Adding
-
+    // one here would hide a regression to the old next-frame correction.
     let rows = drawn_rows(&h, &screen);
     let first = *rows.first().expect("the first row is on screen");
     assert!(
@@ -318,7 +318,6 @@ fn scrolling_past_the_last_row_settles_on_it() {
     for _ in 0..20 {
         t = scrolled(&mut h, &screen, 100_000.0, t);
     }
-    h.frame(t);
 
     let rows = drawn_rows(&h, &screen);
     let last = *rows.last().expect("the last row is on screen");