grom is keeping `patch-A.mpq` — it is almost certainly textures — so the
shadowing it causes is handled in the chain instead of on his disk.
`mount_order` stays the reference's law, letter above digit and all, and
`demote_stale_snapshots` runs after it: an archive whose `FrameXML.toc`
is a **strict subset** of another's is an earlier edition of the realm's
manifest, so it mounts just below the patch set — above `patch.MPQ` and
the base archives, so anything only it carries still resolves. A toc
that differs by *removal* is a different manifest rather than an older
one and is left exactly where its name puts it. `WOW_CHAIN_DEMOTE=0`
keeps the reference's order for comparison.
On his install `patch-A.mpq` (Aug 7) now loses to `patch-5.mpq`, so the
realm's current data is what loads: its `FrameXML.toc`, its
`GlobalStrings.lua` and a `Spell.dbc` with **28019** rows against the
27992 his last session reported — 27 spells the update added that were
invisible.
Reading the realm's real files then broke ten tests, all of which had
pinned August's behaviour, and each is now pinned the realm's way:
- `AIOHandlers.lua` claimed the `OctoRadio` block as a no-op on the
evidence that the radio file carried no AIO call. The update built the
radio out into a file twice the size whose `RegisterNowPlayingFeed`
registers that name at `VARIABLES_LOADED`, and `AIO.RegisterEvent`
asserts on a duplicate, so our shim raised through seven tests. The
row is gone, and the shim now claims at `PLAYER_LOGIN` through `pcall`
so a realm that implements one of these takes the name and we step
aside. `no_aio_block_we_shim_is_one_the_realm_now_handles` fails a row
the realm has implemented — verified by putting `OctoRadio` back.
- `BATTLEFIELDS_CLOSED` no longer hides the battlefield list, by the
realm's decision: the server stamps `SMSG_BATTLEFIELD_LIST`'s
battlemaster guid with the player's own, so the client anchors the
window to the spot it opened and closes it when you step away, on foot
or on a boat (bug tracker #330 and its follow-up). Pinned that way,
with the close button proving the list still closes.
- `MAX_QUESTLOG_QUESTS` is 25, not 1.12's 20. The test reads the realm's
global now, so the next bump is data and not a failure.
- The realm's `OctoQuestLogPoller` redraws the log every 0.2 s, which
legitimately costs a layout gate walk. `POLLS_ON_A_TIMER` stands it
down by name before the quiet-frame bench measures, rather than
raising the threshold and blunting the one instrument that catches an
every-frame writer. A timed realm handler that is not listed fails.
269 data-gated failures, identical to the baseline at HEAD name for
name, and all nine gates green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
This checkout had no git history at all, so this one commit carries the whole
of the Everwood work as a single import on top of chairmanpow/benilla-octo's
`main` (706cd71). The two trees have genuinely diverged — each has files the
other does not — so this is a fork point, not a catch-up.
Today's work, which is the reason a baseline exists at all:
- Booth previews no longer cast world shadows (`NO_BOOTH_SHADOW`). Portrait
characters were entering the sun's shadow cascades, so every skinned-rig
shadow specialization compiled live mid-frame; the hitch detector logged
"main thread blocked 1316 ms" beside a `compiled LIVE` warning. This was
the Fashion/Tmog stutter.
- Per-pane dress-up: each `DressUpModel` pane assembles and stages its own
tried-on look instead of every pane mirroring the live player.
- Item template cache is append-only JSONL written on the IO pool, replacing
an 11.6 MB whole-map JSON rewrite on the main thread every 10 s.
- `WOW_SYSTEM_TIMING` rebuilt per-thread: it took 2 mutexes per system enter
and 4 per exit, costing 15 ms a frame (590 fps -> 60) and corrupting the
measurements it was taken to produce.
- The visibility-churn sweep moved to its own `WOW_FLASH_CHURN` switch, so a
frame-cost reading no longer pays 2.7 ms a frame for it.
Local state (`benilla-config/`, `logs/`, `target/`) is excluded by the
existing .gitignore; the account credential it holds is not in this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
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