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 | 8950 | 8591 | 10655
smarm 1-thread | 1000 | 9688 | 8657 | 11720
tokio current_thread | 1000 | 123 | 123 | 256
tokio multi-thread | 1000 | 192 | 177 | 314
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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 | 42965 | 41667 | 44850
smarm 1-thread | 200000 | 42881 | 41634 | 48864
tokio current_thread | 200000 | 15112 | 14986 | 15484
tokio multi-thread | 200000 | 16006 | 15915 | 16647
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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 | 29931 | 29750 | 31707
smarm 1-thread | 33860 | 29977 | 29670 | 30996
tokio current_thread | 33860 | 28615 | 28441 | 30188
tokio multi-thread | 33860 | 34371 | 34330 | 35176
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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 | 16753 | 16498 | 18516
smarm 1-thread | 1000 | 16728 | 16599 | 16874
tokio current_thread | 1000 | 940 | 933 | 1037
tokio multi-thread | 1000 | 4317 | 4236 | 4427
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 | 132575 | 128629 | 136999
smarm 1-thread | 10000 | 130313 | 127372 | 157234
tokio current_thread | 10000 | 2689 | 2611 | 2833
tokio multi-thread | 10000 | 11337 | 4288 | 12635
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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 | 9122 | 9000 | 11033
smarm 1-thread | 320000 | 9143 | 9015 | 9333
tokio current_thread | 320000 | 17705 | 17250 | 18111
tokio multi-thread | 320000 | 18044 | 17621 | 19484
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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 | 141925 | 135531 | 188381
smarm 1-thread | 10000 | 139655 | 134291 | 146458
tokio current_thread | 10000 | 13837 | 13621 | 14877
tokio multi-thread | 10000 | 14992 | 14542 | 15237
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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 | 29687 | 29554 | 31408
tokio multi 1-thread | 33860 | 28963 | 28742 | 30236
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 | 83 | 80 | 128
smarm 1-thread | 1 | 86 | 77 | 149
tokio current_thread | 1 | 25 | 25 | 50
tokio multi-thread | 1 | 53 | 47 | 84
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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 | 197474 | 194313 | 201690
tokio current_thread | 1000000 | 149289 | 148575 | 154319
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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 | 26884 | 26675 | 29436
tokio current_thread | 1000000 | 52594 | 51941 | 54495
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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 | 148321 | 146050 | 152943
smarm 1-thread | 10000 | 147961 | 144521 | 152158
tokio current_thread | 10000 | 264487 | 260848 | 274838
tokio multi-thread | 10000 | 272103 | 265687 | 285209