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Evan 9e9c608053 perf: cut core-sim GC churn another 36% (61% cumulative) (#4496)
## Summary

Round 2 of GC-churn reduction, attacking the next tier of allocation
sources found by the profiling harness from #4494. All changes are
**behavior-preserving** — the simulation is bit-identical (final hash
unchanged on three seeded runs).

### Changes

| Site | Change | Churn target |
|---|---|---|
| `Player.units()` / `Game.units()` | Rest parameter → fixed-arity +
array overloads (`units()`, `units(types[])`, `units(t1, t2?, t3?)`).
The rest array was allocated on **every call** of one of the hottest
functions in the sim. Spread call sites (`units(...Structures.types)`)
now pass the array directly. `GameImpl.units()` builds one flat array
instead of `Array.from().flatMap()` per-player intermediates. | ~18 GB |
| `PlayerExecution` cluster flood fill | Results are plain `TileRef[]`
in mark order instead of `Set<TileRef>` — the generation-stamped visited
array already deduplicates, and consumers only iterate/measure. DFS
stack reused across fills. | ~3.7 GB |
| `SpatialQuery.bfsNearest` | Fused generation-stamped BFS with per-game
scratch buffers (`WeakMap`-keyed, same pattern as `PlayerExecution`)
instead of materializing a `Set` of the entire search area per query.
Identical traversal and tie-breaking. | ~2.2 GB |
| `NationWarshipBehavior` ship tracking | Single-pass loops instead of
`filter().forEach()`; dropped defensive `Array.from(set)` copies
(deleting the current entry while iterating a `Set` is well-defined). |
~1.4 GB |

### Results (Giant World Map, 400 bots, 12,000 ticks ≈ 20 game-min, seed
`perf-default`)

| Metric | Before | After | vs. pre-#4494 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sampled allocations (incl. collected) | 59.2 GB | **37.8 GB (−36%)** |
97.7 GB (**−61%**) |
| GC count / total pause | 1,076 / 1,830 ms | 772 / 1,442 ms | 1,682 /
3,313 ms |
| Ticks/sec | 73 | **82** | 66 (+24%) |
| Mean / p99 tick | 13.6 / 39.2 ms | 12.2 / 36.0 ms | 15.2 / 49.9 ms |

`units()` no longer appears in the top-30 allocator list at all. The
remaining leaders (possible round 3): the minimap pathfinding `Cell`
pipeline (~8.5 GB), `diffPlayerUpdate`/`toFullUpdate` per-tick
serialization (~4.6 GB), and iterator allocations (~3.3 GB).

## Determinism

Final game-state hash unchanged on all three reference runs:
- Giant World Map 12,000 ticks: `57830793797434300` ✓
- Giant World Map 2,000 ticks: `55125379638382860` ✓
- World 1,800 ticks: `32337437717390864` ✓

## Test plan

- [x] Full suite green (1,905 tests), including updated `units()`
semantics tests (array overload, snapshot isolation, insertion order)
- [x] Hash equality on 3 seeded headless runs (2 maps)
- [x] Before/after 20-min GC benchmarks on the same commit base

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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