simd: bounded u8 power sums into 128-bit registers, lossless widen, tiled driver (D-LXC-29)

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What

Six new folds for u8 lanes that write into 128-bit registers instead of wide accumulators. This is the first consumer of lance-graph's Register128 slab reading (D-LXC-29).

Univariate: masked_group_bounded_power_sums_u8{,_via,_pair}

• One register per group, read as four little-endian u32 words: [n, Σx, Σx², reserved].
• Word 3 is reserved: it is never read or written.

Bivariate: masked_group_bounded_cross_power_sums_u8{,_via,_pair}

• Two rails per group:
  • rail0 = [n, Σx, Σx², ·], the same register the univariate fold produces for x;
  • rail1 = [Σy, Σy², Σxy, ·].
• So n is stored once.

Tile bound: BOUNDED_TILE_ROWS = 65,536.

• A compile-time assertion proves 255² · 2^16 < 2^32, so no word can wrap within a tile.
• A tile with more rows returns BoundedFoldError::TileTooLarge before anything is written.

Widening: widen_bounded_{,cross_}power_sums turns registers into the exact PowerSums / CrossPowerSums.

Tiled drivers: fold_bounded_{,cross_}power_sums_tiles

• They cut a population of any size into tiles and merge each tile with checked_merge.
• If any group's merge would overflow, the whole tile is refused: nothing from it is merged.

All six folds go through the existing group_walk. Lane, via and pair addressing and the drop rules are therefore exactly those of the i32 kernels. No existing API changed.

Tests (8 new; each disable below was run and turned the named tests red)

claim	test	disable that turns it red
65,536 rows of u8::MAX fit exactly, univariate and bivariate	the_full_bound_at_u8_max_fits_exactly	—
65,537 rows are refused and nothing is written	one_row_past_the_bound_is_refused_before_any_write	remove the bound guard
the reserved word 3 is never touched	the_reserved_word_is_never_written	—
narrow → widen equals the i32 kernel for lane, via and pair	narrow_then_widen_…, bivariate_narrow_then_widen_…	swap a widen word (3 tests red)
tiles + checked_merge equal the whole population	partitioned_tiles_merge_to_the_whole	replace the merge with an overwrite
an overflowing tile commits nothing	an_overflowing_merge_commits_nothing_of_the_tile	fuse the overflow check into the commit loop
an error returned by the tile closure aborts the fold	a_refused_tile_aborts_the_tiled_fold	—

Checks run: clippy --lib --example bounded_power_sums_bench -D warnings is clean and fmt --check passes.

Measured

examples/bounded_power_sums_bench, run on an AVX-512 host (avx512f=true), release build, 16 groups, median of 31 runs, ns/row. Each case asserts exactness before it is timed.

case	wide i32	bounded u8	ratio
univariate tile=4096	1.448	1.094	1.32
bivariate tile=4096	3.032	1.921	1.58
univariate tile=65536	1.432	1.095	1.31
bivariate tile=65536	3.264	1.911	1.71
univariate tiled n=1,048,699	1.514	1.205	1.26
bivariate tiled n=1,048,699	3.477	2.133	1.63

How to read these numbers:

• They come from one host in one session; AVX2, NEON and wasm were not timed.
• The wide path is timed on lanes already widened to i32, so the conversion cost that the bounded path avoids is not counted.

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• New Features
  • Added bounded power-sum calculations for 8-bit values, including grouped and cross-variable results with masked inputs.
  • Added support for processing larger datasets in tiles and combining tile results. Oversized tiles and merges that would overflow now return errors without partially applying the affected operation.
  • Added conversions from bounded results to standard power-sum results.

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The change adds bounded u8 univariate and bivariate power-sum folds, widening conversions, and tiled aggregation with overflow checks. It exposes these APIs through simd and adds a benchmark comparing bounded and wide kernels.

Changes

Bounded Power-Sum Folding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded register folds and widening src/simd_masking_ops.rs	Adds bounded u8 folds for resident, indirect, and composite keys, plus conversions to wide result types. Checks the tile row limit before modifying registers. Tests cover register boundaries, reserved words, and equivalence to wide folds.
Tiled folding and merge handling src/simd_masking_ops.rs	Adds tiled univariate and bivariate folds. Each tile is checked for merge overflow before any of its groups are committed. Tests cover multi-tile results, overflow refusal, and callback errors.
Public exports and benchmark src/simd.rs, Cargo.toml, examples/bounded_power_sums_bench.rs	Re-exports the bounded APIs and registers a benchmark that requires std. The benchmark checks bounded results against wide results, then measures single- and multi-tile kernels.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant TiledFold
  participant TileCallback
  participant Output
  Caller->>TiledFold: fold rows by bounded tiles
  TiledFold->>TileCallback: process tile range
  TileCallback-->>TiledFold: bounded registers or error
  TiledFold->>TiledFold: check all group merges
  TiledFold->>Output: merge widened tile results
  TiledFold-->>Caller: return result or error

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