From 4b10ee4a5f9debf7dbd9ad140e373e9fc7d3bc24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brummel <mould@mycelium.de>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 11:46:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] design-md-consolidation 1.3: drop date anchors from DESIGN.md

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 docs/DESIGN.md | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/DESIGN.md b/docs/DESIGN.md
index f42b0de..cf6a3a0 100644
--- a/docs/DESIGN.md
+++ b/docs/DESIGN.md
@@ -682,10 +682,10 @@ without a source-level rewrite.
 ## Decision 9: dual allocator — RC canonical, Boehm parity oracle
 
 Originally framed
-(2026-05-07) as "transitional Boehm until the RC pipeline
+as "transitional Boehm until the RC pipeline
 (Iters 18a–18g) lands and the default flips"; then re-framed
-(2026-05-08) as a symmetric dual-allocator policy with Boehm as
-the CLI default. The 2026-05-09 revision flips the asymmetry to
+as a symmetric dual-allocator policy with Boehm as
+the CLI default. The revision flips the asymmetry to
 match Decision 10:
 
 - **RC is canonical.** `--alloc=rc` is the CLI default for
@@ -832,7 +832,7 @@ is too.
 
 ## Decision 10: memory model — RC + Uniqueness with LLM-author annotations
 
-**Committed 2026-05-08, after the GC bench (`bench/run.sh`) showed
+**The GC bench (`bench/run.sh`) showed
 Boehm contributing ~60% of runtime on allocation-heavy workloads
 that hold the heap fully live. Sharpened later the same day: the
 mainstream "RC + inference" position was extended with mandatory
@@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@ monomorphised copies resolve to concrete drop fns).
 6. **Iter 18f:** RC validation bench. RC validated within target
    on `bench/run.sh` (live=0; tail latency 23× better than Boehm;
    RSS lower). Retirement of Boehm executes in two steps: first a
-   default-flip (2026-05-09 — `--alloc=rc` becomes the CLI default,
+   default-flip (`--alloc=rc` is the CLI default,
    GC retained as parity oracle; see Decision 9 above); second a
    full removal once the oracle stops paying its keep (gating
    condition: a few iter families with no GC-only diagnostic
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ materialises with a real workload.
 
 - **Does not infer everything.** An earlier draft of this
   Decision said "uniqueness is fully inferred" — that was the
-  mainstream RC position. The 2026-05-08 follow-up discussion
+  mainstream RC position. A follow-up discussion
   replaced it: AILang demands annotations *because* the LLM
   author can produce them effortlessly. The compiler does
   inference *plus* verification of contracts.
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ materialises with a real workload.
 
 ## Decision 11: typeclasses — Haskell-lite, monomorphised, coherent
 
-**Committed 2026-05-09 (Iter 22a), as the design pass that gates
+**The design pass that gates
 22b implementer work. Codified after the Feature-acceptance
 criterion (this document, above) was committed; the criterion is
 the explicit basis for the choices below.**
@@ -1608,7 +1608,7 @@ between a hand-written `show_int` and a synthesised `show__Int`.
 
 **Why mono, not virtual dispatch (the empirically-grounded version).**
 The original rationale implicitly argued that mono saves a per-call
-indirect-jump cost. The 2026-05-10 mono-vs-vdisp micro-benchmark
+indirect-jump cost. A mono-vs-vdisp micro-benchmark
 (`bench/mono_dispatch.py`, JOURNAL entry of the same date) refutes
 that specific claim: on a saturating branch predictor with a
 monomorphic indirect target, indirect dispatch is free relative to
@@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ axis-5 (kind `*` only) covers the space.
   the param.
 - **Higher-rank polymorphism** (`forall a. (forall b. b -> b) -> a`).
   Already rejected at parse time per the typeclass-conversation
-  rationale recorded in JOURNAL 2026-05-09; constraint-bearing
+  rationale recorded in JOURNAL; constraint-bearing
   signatures inherit that prohibition.
 - **Existential / dyn dispatch** (`exists a. Show a => a`,
   heterogeneous lists like `[Show]`). Schema does not express
@@ -2021,7 +2021,7 @@ canonical-JSON hash.
 
 Two allocator backends share the same MIR. `--alloc=rc` is the
 canonical backend committed to in Decision 10 and the CLI default
-since 2026-05-09: the typechecker enforces
+the typechecker enforces
 `(own)` / `(borrow)` modes, codegen emits `ailang_rc_inc` / `_dec`
 calls at the points dictated by linearity, and `Term::Clone` /
 `Term::ReuseAs` materialise into actual rc-bumps and in-place