The performance section reported a cost the fixture had invented. `Branch`
picks which subtree to draw from a measured length, so seed 1 draws 88
widgets at `5ed9e87` and 115 at `bd6de71` -- the ms table was comparing
three and a half times the work. Measured on one tree, fixed point costs
about a fifth to a quarter.
Also corrects where the cost is. Cycles say the `i64` division is 0.00% of
`apply_scalar` and the multiply 1.5%; it is `saturating_add`, five
instructions with no `i32` vector form. Cycle counts are steady here to
0.23% -- it is wall time that varies 2x, not the counters -- and IPC is
unchanged across fixed point, so this is instruction count and not stalls.
Records the four wins taken (-7.4% cycles, -12% instructions), the four
things tried that made it worse, and the one lever left that needs a
decision rather than a measurement.
Also: the `Len`/`LayoutLen` split and `has_exact_size`; that `Scroll`
reports `LEFTOVER` rather than its content's size, which this said wrongly
in one place and rightly in another; and that the clipping `debug_assert`
holds mask-setters only, which is why a `LazySpan` does not trip it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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