Keep visited transcripts on the phone

Reopening a session downloaded the conversation again, every time, over
the tunnel. It now draws from a copy of what the server has already sent
and asks for one event to check that copy is still current.

Per session, under cacheDir, the server's own event lines in chunks named
for the range they cover -- so a coalesced page, whose lines do not say
what they cover, still records it. Only the contiguous run ending at the
newest chunk is served; a gap is closed by paging through it, bounded by
`after` on /transcript so the page stops where the phone's copy starts
and can therefore be kept. Nothing is derived and stored: rows are a
rendering, and a cache of them would need throwing away on every change
to the fold.

Nothing here is load-bearing. Missing, evicted, damaged or unwritable all
degrade to the cold open this screen did before, and the check before the
stream resumes -- one request, one event -- is what stops a replaced or
truncated file being spliced onto a copy of a different conversation.
What that check cannot see, a line changed mid-file with the tail intact,
is what Reload in session settings is for.

Measured on the emulator against ui-sandbox, on a 505-event session:
reopening it costs one request for one event, including scrolling the
whole conversation back; a cold open is two requests and 100 events. A
reset after falling 300 behind fetched the gap as four coalesced rows
rather than re-fetching 104 events and discarding them. Every chunk was
checked line by line against what the server says for the range its name
claims, across the reset and the gap-fill.

transcript-bench.sh, same viewport content and gestures, before and
after: p50 16.9ms both, p90 25.6 -> 23.2ms, p99 33.5 -> 36.7ms, and the
transcript's own draw accounting 0.33ms -> 0.32ms with place 0.31ms
either way. Within the emulator's noise, which is what a cache must be:
it changes what is fetched, not what is drawn.

Building it also found that the server handed out the same transcript
line two different ways. serde_json's default float parser is not
correctly rounded, so a ts written as ...0757 came back from /transcript
as ...0755 while the SSE stream sent the original -- invisible on screen,
since a ts is drawn as a relative time, and visible here only because the
cache compares a line it holds against the server's answer. Fixed with
float_roundtrip, with a test that fails the moment it is dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -27,12 +27,19 @@ class EventStream(settings: ServerSettings, private val sessionId: String) {
* caller drops what it holds and rebuilds -- the same thing it does when the screen opens. It
* arrives before those events, so a caller that clears on it stays in order.
*/
fun run(after: Long, onOpen: () -> Unit, onReset: () -> Unit, onEvent: (SeqEvent) -> Unit) {
fun run(
after: Long,
onOpen: () -> Unit,
onReset: () -> Unit,
// The frame's own text as well as the event parsed from it: the transcript cache stores
// the one and the screen folds the other, and they have to be the same line.
onEvent: (raw: String, event: SeqEvent) -> Unit,
) {
stream.run("/sessions/$sessionId/events?after=$after", onOpen) { name, data ->
// A named frame carries no payload and a data frame has no name, so this is one or
// the other.
if (name == RESET_EVENT) onReset()
else if (data.isNotEmpty()) onEvent(parseSeqEvent(data))
else if (data.isNotEmpty()) onEvent(data, parseSeqEvent(data))
}
}
}