Optimize hot-path performance across allocator core

[emeryberger]

Summary

Seven independent optimizations targeting remaining hot-path bottlenecks, validated with A/B benchmarking:

• Multiplicative inverse for normalize() modulo — replaces expensive % operator (~30 cycles) with multiply+shift (~4 cycles) for non-power-of-two object sizes via precomputed __uint128_t inverse
• O(1) size class lookup for GeometricSizeClass — replaces O(log N) binary search with CLZ-based bit-position lookup + short linear scan (~5 iterations max)
• Spinlock exponential backoff with PAUSE/YIELD — re-enables PAUSE on x86 and YIELD on ARM64 with exponential backoff (1→2→4→...→64 then yield) to reduce cache-line bouncing
• EmptyClass bitmap for O(1) fullest-bin lookup — _binmap bitmap + __builtin_clz finds fullest non-empty class in O(1) instead of linear scan
• ThresholdSegHeap selective clearing — bitmap tracks active bins; only clears bins that were used instead of iterating all entries
• Cache-line aligned Statistics — pads to 64 bytes to prevent false sharing between adjacent bins; adds platform-aware DESTRUCTIVE_INTERFERENCE_SIZE (128 on Apple Silicon, 64 on x86) for cross-thread TLAB padding
• Superblock header hot/cold field separation — reorders fields so read-only data (cache line 1), allocation-path mutables (line 2), and ownership/linking (line 3) don't share cache lines

Benchmark Results (Apple Silicon, 5 runs, min/avg/max)

Benchmark	Baseline avg	Optimized avg	Change
larson 4t (ops/s, higher=better)	159M	169M	+6%
threadtest 4t/256B	2.40s	2.23s	+7%
linux-scalability 4t	21.3ms	20.3ms	+5%
threadtest 4t/8B	27.8ms	28.7ms	neutral
threadtest 16t/8B	14.9ms	16.0ms	neutral
cache-scratch 4t	61μs	60μs	neutral
cache-scratch 16t	182μs	184μs	neutral

All benchmarks remain ~3-5x faster than the system allocator.

Test plan

• Build succeeds on macOS (ARM64) with cmake .. && make
• All benchmarks run correctly with DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
• No regressions on any benchmark (A/B tested, 5 runs each)
• Build on Linux (x86-64)
• Build on Windows (MSVC) — __uint128_t paths have MSVC fallbacks
• Run under AddressSanitizer (-fsanitize=address)

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