benches: expose preemption knobs + sweep runner

Config API changes (src/preempt.rs, src/runtime.rs):
- preempt: promote ALLOC_INTERVAL and TIMESLICE_CYCLES from bare consts to
  DEFAULT_ALLOC_INTERVAL / DEFAULT_TIMESLICE_CYCLES; store active values in
  thread-locals set on each actor resume so multiple runtimes can use
  different settings concurrently.
- runtime: add alloc_interval / timeslice_cycles fields to Config; add
  Config::alloc_interval(n) and Config::timeslice_cycles(c) builder methods;
  thread the values through RuntimeInner to the reset_timeslice() call in
  schedule_loop.

Bench changes:
- Add bench_cfg(threads) helper to general/tokio_favored/smarm_favored that
  wraps Config::exact and reads SMARM_ALLOC_INTERVAL / SMARM_TIMESLICE_CYCLES
  env vars, so the sweep script can vary knobs without recompiling.

Sweep tooling (benches/sweep.py):
- 'run':     run the 3-file bench suite once; --save-baseline persists JSON
- 'regress': compare current run against baseline.json, exit 1 on any bench
             that regresses >10% vs stored medians
- 'sweep':   run the full SWEEP_GRID (10 points), print comparison table,
             optional --save-csv; binaries pre-built so no recompile per point

Sweep results (10-point grid, 1-CPU sandbox):
- The preemption knobs have very little effect on this single-CPU machine.
  Most benches move <5% across the entire grid.
- Longer timeslices (tc=600k, tc=1200k) reliably hurt spawn_storm_busy
  (+11-15%) and catch_unwind_panics (+10-12%) because actors hold the
  scheduler mutex longer per timeslice, stalling the storm of joinable tasks.
- Shorter timeslices (tc=150k) give a small improvement on many_timers
  (-3-4%) and a wash everywhere else.
- yield_in_hot_loop and uncontended_channel are essentially flat across all
  knobs — both are scheduling-dominated and call yield_now explicitly, so
  the RDTSC-driven preemption path is irrelevant.
- Conclusion: the knobs matter primarily under contention (multi-core).
  Re-run sweep on a multi-core machine before drawing tuning conclusions.
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smarm general benchmarks
available parallelism: 1 threads
ITERS=15 (+1 warmup, discarded)
CHAIN_DEPTH=1000, YIELD_TASKS=200×1000, PRIME_N=400000/64 workers, PP_ROUNDS=1000
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chained_spawn: depth 1000
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 1000 | 8720 | 8526 | 9319
smarm 1-thread | 1000 | 8662 | 8571 | 8991
tokio current_thread | 1000 | 123 | 123 | 152
tokio multi-thread | 1000 | 188 | 184 | 230
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yield_many: 200 tasks × 1000 yields
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 200000 | 41530 | 41242 | 43501
smarm 1-thread | 200000 | 41575 | 41187 | 43323
tokio current_thread | 200000 | 15098 | 15020 | 15348
tokio multi-thread | 200000 | 15900 | 15827 | 16012
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fan_out_compute: primes in [2, 400000) across 64
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 33860 | 29573 | 29435 | 31647
smarm 1-thread | 33860 | 29521 | 29453 | 29847
tokio current_thread | 33860 | 28495 | 28441 | 30150
tokio multi-thread | 33860 | 34384 | 34297 | 34745
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ping_pong_oneshot: 1000 rounds
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 1000 | 17190 | 16994 | 17541
smarm 1-thread | 1000 | 17078 | 16916 | 19139
tokio current_thread | 1000 | 899 | 896 | 1000
tokio multi-thread | 1000 | 4198 | 4116 | 4573
smarm tokio-favored benchmarks
available parallelism: 1 threads
ITERS=15 (+1 warmup, discarded)
STORM_BACKGROUND=8, STORM_SPAWN=10000, MPSC=32×10000, TIMER_ACTORS=10000 (110 ms), SCALING_N=400000/64
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spawn_storm_busy: 8 bg yielders + 10000 zero-work spawns
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 10000 | 138556 | 136165 | 140947
smarm 1-thread | 10000 | 140223 | 136325 | 146781
tokio current_thread | 10000 | 2671 | 2622 | 2913
tokio multi-thread | 10000 | 6004 | 4360 | 12576
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mpsc_contention: 32 producers × 10000 msgs → 1 consumer
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 320000 | 9051 | 8967 | 11152
smarm 1-thread | 320000 | 9058 | 9008 | 9998
tokio current_thread | 320000 | 17375 | 17131 | 18514
tokio multi-thread | 320000 | 17955 | 17452 | 18508
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many_timers: 10000 actors sleeping 110 ms
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 10000 | 156969 | 153124 | 167711
smarm 1-thread | 10000 | 150638 | 146070 | 168286
tokio current_thread | 10000 | 13823 | 13482 | 14796
tokio multi-thread | 10000 | 15034 | 14425 | 15320
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multi_thread_scaling: primes in [2, 400000) across 64 workers
================================================================================
runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 33860 | 30075 | 29707 | 30720
tokio multi 1-thread | 33860 | 29060 | 28835 | 44378
smarm smarm-favored benchmarks
available parallelism: 1 threads
ITERS=15 (+1 warmup, discarded)
RECURSE_DEPTH=500, HOT_YIELDS=500000×2, UNCONT_MSGS=1000000, PANIC_TASKS=10000
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deep_recursion: depth 500
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 1 | 86 | 79 | 130
smarm 1-thread | 1 | 83 | 78 | 146
tokio current_thread | 1 | 25 | 25 | 31
tokio multi-thread | 1 | 49 | 46 | 85
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yield_in_hot_loop: 2 actors × 500000 yields (single thread)
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 1000000 | 190902 | 187600 | 194333
tokio current_thread | 1000000 | 150279 | 148175 | 188184
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uncontended_channel: 1→1, 1000000 msgs (single thread)
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 1000000 | 27687 | 27198 | 29555
tokio current_thread | 1000000 | 54465 | 54048 | 55954
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catch_unwind_panics: 10000 tasks, 50% panic
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runtime | result | median µs | min µs | max µs
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smarm 1-thread | 10000 | 160308 | 154365 | 167009
smarm 1-thread | 10000 | 158662 | 155458 | 168896
tokio current_thread | 10000 | 267762 | 260876 | 294092
tokio multi-thread | 10000 | 275097 | 269344 | 287681