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This PR asks whether the 64K-self support mask, read as [u16; 4096], schedules expensive lane work better than the u64 words the production kernels already walk. It adds a probe and research write-ups only; production code is unchanged.

  • examples/aperture16_probe.rs (lance-graph-benches). Every route's answer is asserted equal before it is timed. Seven modes:
    • a1: visitation;
    • a2: payload ladder from u8 to 128-byte records;
    • occ: per-cell occupancy 0..16;
    • a3: VIA support and multiplicity;
    • a4: bounded extent × mask;
    • a5: CSR K propagation;
    • a6: target-side scheduling.
  • Research in .claude/research/:
    • D-APERTURE-16-0.md: the report, with all 14 sections and the eight answers;
    • D-APERTURE-16-MATRIX.md: the technique matrix;
    • D-APERTURE-16-tables.md: full tables.
  • Knowledge and board: fold-execution laws 10 and 11, a board entry, and the regenerated entries index.

Measured

Single thread, AVX-512 Xeon, release build.

  • The u16 view is free, but it is not a better schedule. It is a shift of the same 8 KiB, endianness-proof and checked against align_to. As a schedule it is 1.6–2.8× slower than the u64 set-bit walk on geometric mean, and 7× slower on an empty mask (4096 tests against 1024).
  • Full-word dense path (word == u64::MAX): geomean 0.80, ~3× on runs, at most 6 % worse on any layout.
  • Full 16-run detection: wins only on 16-aligned islands (0.41), and is 1.2–1.8× slower on scattered data.
  • Extent and mask compose multiplicatively: 3.0 µs, against 29.1 µs for extent only and 15.7 µs for mask only.
  • No selection vector needed. The mask schedules VIA and K propagation on its own. The ordinal list shows no reproducible win; every apparent win reversed on re-run.
  • Target side: writing the exact next-frontier mask in the same pass is up to ~19× faster than clearing and scanning K_next. A [u16; 4096] histogram pre-pass never pays.
  • Runtime tracks work actually left, never N. Correlation is r ≈ 0.95–0.99 with live rows for lanes up to 16 B, and with live cache lines from 32 B up.

Ruling: no new carrier and no new V4 opcode. The rule that survives is extent → skip zero words → dense full words → walk set bits → touch payload last, in u64 words.

Validation

  • cargo clippy --release -p lance-graph-benches --example aperture16_probe -- -D warnings is clean, and cargo fmt is clean.
  • Disable runs, each failing as expected after committing:
    • skipping the K_next clear trips the new clean-K_next assert;
    • dropping one cell bit trips the A2 parity assert;
    • shortening the dense path trips the A2 parity assert.
  • entries_index.py --check passes, and SUPERSESSION-INDEX.md regenerates with no change.

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  • Documentation
    • Added benchmark results comparing mask traversal, payload access, extent filtering, and propagation strategies across varied data layouts and densities.
    • Recorded that 64-bit mask traversal generally outperformed 16-bit scheduling, while writing an exact next-frontier mask improved sparse propagation.
    • Documented cases where full-word processing helped and where run detection or histogram-based approaches did not provide a reliable advantage.
    • Results are limited to one machine and a single thread.

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…a 64K self-space

Probe crates/lance-graph-benches/examples/aperture16_probe.rs, modes a1/a2/occ/a3/a4/a5/a6:
visitation, payload ladder (u8..128 B), per-cell occupancy, VIA support and
multiplicity, bounded extent x mask, CSR K propagation, target-side scheduling.
Every route is asserted equal before it is timed.

Result: the [u16; 4096] view of the 64K mask is a free shift of the same 8 KiB,
but as a schedule it is 1.6-2.8x slower than the u64 set-bit walk production
already uses (7x on an empty mask). A full-word dense path helps (geomean 0.80);
full 16-run detection helps only on 16-aligned runs. Extent and mask compose.
On the target side, the exact next-frontier mask written in the same pass beats
the u16 histogram pre-pass. No new carrier, no new V4 opcode.

Adds fold-execution laws 10 and 11 and a board entry.

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The next-frontier checksum cannot see clearing, so a route that skipped
re-zeroing K_next would pass it and time faster than it should.

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Route order is fixed, which can bias the A6 comparison.

Every pattern runs the four A6 routes in the same order. The other modes have the same fixed order. Cache state and clock drift can therefore favor one position in a consistent direction. The A6 ruling depends on margins as small as 6.3 vs 6.9 µs. Rotate or randomize the route order per pattern, and print the order that ran.

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Review fixes (PR #1377):
- live_lines counts lines from the payload's real address offset; a Vec<P>
  is only align_of::<P>()-aligned, so records can straddle an extra line.
- A4's window starts at min(span/5, span - width): at ef = 1.0 it now covers
  the whole universe instead of its last 80 %; narrower windows are unchanged.
- A6 rotates the route order per pattern (A6_ROT shifts it) and prints the
  run position, so no route always runs first.

Re-measured A2, A4 and A6. A6 is reported as the median over four runs in
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@coderabbitai on the route-order nitpick: I adopted it in d21ca74 for A6, and it changed results there.

A6 now rotates the route order per pattern. Running A6_ROT=0..3 puts every route in every position, and §10 reports the median of the four runs. Single runs had varied by up to 2.4×. Under rotation:

  • the histogram pre-pass is the fastest route in 0 of 30 cases;
  • the exact target mask is fastest in 20;
  • the cell bitmap wins the other 10, almost all by ≤ 1 µs.

The ruling stands, and the per-case winners in §10 are corrected.

A1, A2, A3 and A5 still run in a fixed order. Their rulings rest on margins of 1.3× or more and on geometric means over hundreds of cases. §17 records that limit.


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@AdaWorldAPI Thanks for the clarification and the correction.

I verified the A6 rotation and the updates to Sections 10 and 17. A6_ROT=0..3 places every route in every position for each pattern. The report now gives the median over those four runs.

The corrected results support the A6 ruling: the histogram pre-pass wins none of the 30 cases. The exact target mask wins 20, and the cell bitmap wins 10.

The A6 route-order concern is addressed. The fixed order in A1, A2, A3, and A5 remains a documented limitation. Larger margins and geometric means provide evidence, but do not remove systematic route-position bias. I do not request another change here.


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