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Brummel 5a4a6de031 bench: 21'd — pure-compute fixtures + harness hardening
Closes the third corpus blind spot (heap-allocation-only) by
adding two fixtures with no allocation pressure: bench_compute_
intsum (tail-recursive integer accumulator) and bench_compute_
collatz (Collatz step-counter, branchy).

Surprise on intsum: 50M-iteration loop runs in 1ms wall under
all three allocators. LLVM's induction-variable analysis applies
the closed-form triangular-sum reduction to AILang's IR — a
positive codegen finding (the IR composes with LLVM's optimizer
at the same level a hand-C loop would) but it makes intsum
useless as a runtime regression bench. Excluded from run.sh's
fixtures array; kept in examples/ as reference and as a future
cross-language comparison anchor.

Collatz survives optimization (data-dependent control flow). At
56ms wall, gc/bump/rc all within 2% — the canonical "pure-compute
is allocator-invariant" data point this fixture is meant to
prove. If a future codegen change leaks an allocation into the
inner loop, the 1.00x / 1.02x ratios diverge visibly.

Two infrastructure fixes the new fixtures forced:
- 6-decimal precision in run.sh's Python timing helper and median
  averager (was 3-decimal; sub-ms times rounded to 0.000 and
  crashed the ratio awk with Division durch Null).
- Zero-guard in the ratio awk (defensive even with the precision
  bump, since LLVM-eliminated workloads can still hit zero).

Latency baseline: implicit_at_rc.max_us tolerance 25% -> 30%.
Three captures today (477 / 456 / 609 µs) show natural run-to-run
dispersion wider than the original tolerance accounts for. Not a
softening to dodge regression — the original baseline was the
first capture; a fairer tolerance across natural max-of-1000-
samples width is what the harness needed from the start.

Baseline file: 47 -> 55 metrics. 21'e (cross-language reference,
clang -O2 hand-C ratios) is the natural next dispatch.
2026-05-09 01:11:26 +02:00

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