D-KEY16 W1+W2: parity for the stride-16 key match, and a pricing probe

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D-KEY16 waves W1 and W2 (plan key16-contiguous-match-v1, lance-graph). No kernel or facade change. W3/W4 are not started.

W1: parity coverage of ternary_match_strided16_to_mask (crates/simd-masking-parity)

New check group check_care_match16 (codes 0x73x–0x750; CHECKS 15 → 16):

• strides 16/20/32/512, first offsets 0..15, tails 0/1/3/4/5/15/16/17/63/64/65/130;
• 12 care masks (none, full, each of bytes 12–15 alone, 12..16, byte 0, the bit 63/64 boundary, 3 random);
• hits, one-bit near-misses walking bytes 12–15, random rows, against a bytewise reference; buffers end exactly at the last record so an over-read aborts;
• a second sweep with a hand-written expected mask (not computed from the matcher), and an anti-vacuity check that it produces both hits and misses.

All arms PASS, 16 groups bit-identical, exit 0: native v4 (avx512f=true), native v3 (avx512f=false), neon-qemu, avx-qemu, v2-qemu, wasm simd128, wasm-scalar. Nightly not run.

Can-fire: with the reference ignoring care byte 15, the v4 native arm fails with 0x735 (the byte-15-only mask); restored.

W2: examples/key16_match_probe.rs

• Arm A: the current kernel. Arm B: a stride-16 contiguous prototype built only from the ndarray::simd facade (from_array, ternlog, cmpeq_mask, compaction). Arm C: an AVX-512 gather prototype, raw core::arch, cfg-gated to avx512f inside the probe only.
• Before timing, every arm is asserted bit-identical to A (offset 0 full count; offset 5, N−37), and the fixture is asserted non-degenerate.
• Release, median of 101, tier header printed. clippy -D warnings clean under v4 and v3; fmt clean.

Numbers: PROVISIONAL

Host: a 4-core Xeon VM, shared and not quiet (load 0.7–3.0, a lance-graph build running). Each cell is A/arm speedup from the second pass, with the first pass in brackets.

tier	N	stride	sel	A/B	A/C
v3	65,536	16	1%	2.46 (2.13)	–
v3	65,536	16	50%	2.58 (2.31)	–
v3	1,048,576	16	1%	1.79 (1.64)	–
v3	1,048,576	16	50%	1.77 (1.50)	–
v4	65,536	16	1%	2.91 (2.13)	–
v4	65,536	16	50%	2.55 (2.32)	–
v4	1,048,576	16	1%	2.01 (1.51)	–
v4	1,048,576	16	50%	2.19 (2.21)	–
v4	65,536	32	1%	–	3.10 (2.63)
v4	65,536	32	50%	–	2.85 (2.79)
v4	65,536	512	1%	–	0.92 (1.00)
v4	65,536	512	50%	–	0.96 (0.95)
v4	1,048,576	32	1%	–	1.73 (1.45)
v4	1,048,576	32	50%	–	1.69 (1.64)
v4	1,048,576	512	1%	–	1.28 (1.41)
v4	1,048,576	512	50%	–	1.47 (1.36)

Not a gate decision. The plan requires the W3 threshold (B ≥ 1.5× A at stride 16 on both tiers) and the W4 threshold (C ≥ 1.2× A at strides 32 and 512 on avx512) to be measured on a quiet machine. These runs were not quiet. One thing held in both passes: gather at stride 512 with 65,536 rows does not beat the current kernel (0.92–1.00). No kernel change follows from this PR.

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  • Added a benchmark example that compares matching performance across different input sizes, strides, and selection rates.
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  • Expanded matching checks to cover additional 16-byte cases, including varied offsets, row counts, and care masks. Results are checked against a reference, including matches determined by each of the final four bytes.

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The parity crate adds a check for strided 16-byte matching. A new std-gated example compares matcher outputs and reports benchmark timings for configured strides, counts, and selection rates.

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16-byte matcher validation and benchmarking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add the 16-byte parity sweep crates/simd-masking-parity/src/lib.rs	The parity runner now includes a check that compares strided 16-byte matcher output with a bytewise reference across configured strides, offsets, row counts, and care masks. It also checks that the sweep has both hits and misses and tests bytes 12–15 individually.
Register and run the benchmark probe Cargo.toml, examples/key16_match_probe.rs	The example is available with the std feature. It checks complete output buffers against the shipped matcher before timing the contiguous implementation and, when eligible, the AVX-512 gather implementation.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Probe as key16_match_probe
  participant A as Shipped matcher A
  participant B as Contiguous implementation B
  participant C as AVX-512 gather implementation C
  Probe->>A: Generate reference output
  Probe->>B: Generate output for stride 16
  opt x86_64 with avx512f and stride greater than 16
    Probe->>C: Generate output
  end
  Probe->>Probe: Compare complete output buffers
  Probe->>A: Run timed benchmark cases
  Probe->>B: Run eligible timed benchmark cases
  opt x86_64 with avx512f and stride greater than 16
    Probe->>C: Run timed benchmark cases
  end

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This change adds test coverage and a benchmark probe without changing the matching kernel. It is safe to merge. The benchmark runs the arms in a fixed order, so fix that before its numbers are used for any kernel decision.

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examples/key16_match_probe.rs (1)

306-322: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Run the timed arms in alternating order.

The probe always times arm A first. Arm B or arm C always runs second. Clock frequency, thermal state and cache state change over a run. A fixed order therefore biases every ratio in one direction. This matters most for the stride-512 rows. There, the reported A/C ratios are 0.92 to 1.00, so a small systematic bias can change the conclusion. The PR says the W3/W4 decisions will reuse this probe on a quiet host. Fix the order before that re-run.

Interleave the samples per repetition. Alternate which arm runs first, or randomize the order. Take a median for each arm.

♻️ Sketch: interleaved paired sampling

fn paired_median_ns(mut a: impl FnMut(), mut x: impl FnMut()) -> (f64, f64) {
    for _ in 0..WARMUP { a(); x(); }
    let (mut ta, mut tx) = (Vec::with_capacity(REPS), Vec::with_capacity(REPS));
    for r in 0..REPS {
        let mut time = |f: &mut dyn FnMut()| { let t = Instant::now(); f(); t.elapsed().as_nanos() as f64 };
        if r % 2 == 0 { ta.push(time(&mut a)); tx.push(time(&mut x)); }
        else          { tx.push(time(&mut x)); ta.push(time(&mut a)); }
    }
    let med = |v: &mut Vec<f64>| { v.sort_by(|p, q| p.partial_cmp(q).unwrap()); v[REPS / 2] };
    (med(&mut ta), med(&mut tx))
}

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Review comment at @examples/key16_match_probe.rs around lines 306 - 322:
Update the benchmark timing flow around `median_ns` so competing arms are
sampled in an alternating order per repetition, rather than timing arm A fully
before arm B or C. Collect each arm’s timings separately and report a median for
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Review comments at @examples/key16_match_probe.rs:
- Around line 306-322: Update the benchmark timing flow around `median_ns` so
competing arms are sampled in an alternating order per repetition, rather than
timing arm A fully before arm B or C. Collect each arm’s timings separately and
report a median for each, while preserving the existing conditions that
determine whether arms B and C run.

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