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Problem

The release-perf epic's screen-only moves (main slower than release in one wall-time run on a busy host) needed instruction counts to tell real cost from noise, then a fix or a recorded acceptance for each one that held.

Approach

Each lead was re-measured with callgrind, counting instructions per timed operation. Release was rebuilt under main's dev shell with fat LTO and one codegen unit, so the ratios compare source, not toolchains. Every fix was measured before and after on main. A change that did not measure a win was dropped.

Commits:

1. test(mux): export benches open the exporter during setup again, matching release's drain boundary (from the earlier checkpoint; under 1% on main).
2. perf(net): a timed group's first frame passes the track link it already upgraded to the reveal step, instead of upgrading a second time.
3. perf(net): a joining reader finds the first datagram within its max delay by converting the cutoff into the track's scale once (rounded up, so the comparison stays exact) rather than turning every buffered timestamp into a Duration. A 90 kHz test pins the rounding.
4. perf(kio): a Mut write with no live waiter and no close skips moving out and walking its waiter list. A follow-up commit clears dead entries in place on that path, so waiters that parked and left are not rescanned on every later write; the new channel_write_abandoned bench sweeps the abandoned count (1.77 us per write at 4096 before, 11 ns after).
5. quest: records the accepted costs in the epic with their reasons and retires the re-check quest, its last child, so the epic is sized for its final re-run.

Settled decision: the mux catalog/timeline publication cost is accepted. It is required output, paid once per broadcast (the Annex B import ratio falls from 3.97x at 1 frame to 1.49x at 64), and its DEFLATE state is already built lazily.

Results

Instructions per operation, main before and after this PR:

Case	Before	After	Change
group_write_frames/single/8192	7.46M	6.50M	-13%
track_fanout_frame/1	1,002	902	-10%
track_parallel_write/1	10,053	9,593	-5%
track_stamp_groups/append/64	8,830	8,369	-5%
track_stamp_groups/sparse/64	2,981	2,788	-6%
track_datagram_subscriber_join/64d/1	8,530	6,120	-28%
track_datagram_subscriber_join/64d/64	522,414	362,596	-31%

Leads, main over release in instructions (the epic's table has the full set):

• Per-group and per-frame model cost: 1.5x to 2.2x after the fixes, sparse/64 4.4x. Accepted: the rest pays for arrival stamps, largest notifications, the rewind check and starts index, indexed expiry wakes, the bounded expiry scan, and subscriber ranges. None of it grows with the sweeps.
• advance_largest no-ops: already free. A Mut guard only read from wakes nobody, and every frame write moves the largest position, so there was no no-op write to skip.
• origin/announce_duplicate: 1.06x to 1.16x across the sweep, not 4.3x. Noise.
• session_delivery_{relays,paced,scale}: 1.28x to 1.77x. Accepted as the model cost above on every hop, measured through main's flow-controlled mock transport.
• moq-stats aggregate at live=16, departed=4096: 1.05x. Noise.
• kio contended_{notify,log} at 16 threads: 1.04x to 1.15x wall time in the least loaded of three alternating rounds; later rounds swung both ways. These benches spin across threads, so instruction counts can't measure them. Noise.

One side effect: track_empty_run/retired/8/512 rose 4.6% (fresh and stale about 2%). Callgrind attributes it to group::Handle::consumer, which this PR doesn't touch, now copying its return value twice. It appears with the datagram commit alone, so it is an LTO inlining shift, not new work.

Impact

• No public API, wire, or behavior change.
• Consumers: every frame write and first frame in moq-net, every kio write, and every timed track's late join.

Validation

• just check: fmt, shear, sort, clippy, and quest pass; the flake's VM-image build fails at unshare: write failed /proc/self/uid_map on this host, unrelated to this change.
• just rs test -p kio -p moq-net -p moq-mux: 4,742 passed.
• just rs loom: kio 16/16 pass (re-run after the dead-waiter fix). moq-net's a_front_sees_a_reader_return exceeds loom's branch limit on base sources too, so it is not from this PR; its two longest models were stopped unfinished.
• quest check --base origin/main --branch quest/m1/release-perf/recheck passes.
• The new datagram test fails when the cutoff rounds down.

Follow-ups

• session_delivery_paced stays highest at 1.77x. Attributing it needs a per-hop breakdown of the lite session driver, which is larger than this re-check.
• A fast path for expiry::Wakes::landed (about 600 instructions per group, with the mutex taken even when nothing is parked) needs a memory-ordering argument against a parking reader, so it was left out.

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Walkthrough

The changes update the release performance record and remove its separate re-check plan. The mux benchmarks move setup or decoding outside non-inlined timed boundaries. The kio producer clears abandoned value waiters in a specific drop case and adds matching benchmark cases. The network model passes retained track producers into group startup and compares datagram timestamps against a cutoff converted to track units.

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The change appears mergeable with bounded follow-up: complete or explain the missing performance measurement and release storage retained after abandoned waiter bursts.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: completing the release performance re-check and applying hot-path performance fixes.
Description check		The description is directly related to the changeset. It explains the performance investigation, the fixes in moq-net, kio, and benchmark setup, the accepted costs, and validation results.
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Merge summary:

• Merged main to clear conflicts. In the release-perf epic, kept both sides' accepted costs, took main's JS frames resolution (the decision to accept browser parity), and dropped the empty Required section now that its last child, this re-check, is done. The childless epic is sized [M] for its final re-run. In moq-mux/benches/containers.rs, kept both profiled_import and main's interleaved CMAF benches.
• Fixed the Codex finding: a Mut write with no live value waiter now clears dead entries instead of leaving them to be rescanned on every later write. A new channel_write_abandoned bench sweeps the abandoned count: 1.77 us per write at 4096 before, 11 ns after.
• Checks: just check (rs and quest), just rs test -p kio (72 passed), and the kio loom models (16 passed). Codex gave the new head a thumbs-up.

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