Replace scheduler-quantized software sleeps with a reusable Windows high-resolution deadline timer, expose pacing in the frame profiler, and make shutdown wake every persistent mesh worker without losing the shared signal.
Preserve retail alpha order while using a stable radix, skip duplicate deferred-alpha SSBO packing, pack light sets, cache static selection descriptors, and retire historical material groups at the whole-frame boundary. The fixed dense-Caul sample improved from roughly 9-12 ms CPU to 5.3-6.2 ms without reducing visual quality.
Release build succeeds with zero warnings and all 6,300 tests pass with five intentional skips. Three independent retail, architecture, and adversarial reviews are clean; the post-review connected route remains pending because local ACE is offline.
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>
Three review finds, all in the runtime-toggle path or edge math (the
steady-state path was confirmed correct):
1. GPU stale-slot across toggle-off/on: the disabled branch now
Disposes the GpuFrameTimer (and nulls it) instead of Stop()-ing and
keeping it — a kept instance would poll slots left pending from
BEFORE the pause on re-enable and report temporally stale GPU
samples. The re-enable branch's existing null guard rebuilds the
ring fresh. Dispose is safe there: the branch runs at the top of
OnRender with the GL context current.
2. Stale stage accumulation across mid-stage toggle-off: a StageScope
disposed after the flag flips still calls EndStage, leaving a
partial delta in _stageAccumTicks. The re-baseline branch now
Array.Clear()s it alongside the GC re-baselining.
3. FrameStatsBuffer.Max() seeded with 0, clamping all-negative windows
(the alloc channel can go negative if the boundary ever crosses
threads) and disagreeing with Percentile(). Now seeds from the
first live sample after the empty check (slots [0.._count) are
always the live window regardless of ring wraparound); empty still
returns 0 to match Percentile. TDD: Max_AllNegative_ReturnsTrueMax
failed (returned 0) before the fix, passes after.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Permanent frame profiler: FrameBoundary() at the top of OnRender measures
CPU frame time (swap-to-swap delta), brackets the frame in a GpuFrameTimer
TimeElapsed query (self-disabled under ACDREAM_WB_DIAG=1), and samples
per-frame allocated bytes + GC collection deltas. BeginStage(FrameStage)
scopes attribute CPU time to Update/Upload/ImGui. Emits one [frame-prof]
report line every ~5s while RenderingDiagnostics.FrameProfEnabled is on;
zero-cost stage scopes when off. Report formatting is a pure static
method, unit-tested for invariant-culture formatting and the gpu=off
fallback text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
