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a0d83b4fe8 Library: investigate design for an opaque inline functor
This is a design study to find out what would be required
to build an opaque function wrapper, similar to `std::function`,
yet without using any heap memory ever.

Such a building block would allow for some interesting options
for a well structured design of elaborate data structures.

This changeset provides an implementation draft.

__Two important findings to note__:
 * it is impossible to get away with just a single function pointer
 * because at the very least we need to invoke the destructor of the
   embedded delegate. Thus something akin to a "manager" is required.
 * this implies that the component would not be so efficient as I hoped,
   since it requires two pointers and requires to emit code for each
   type of delegate.
 * by making the component **NonCopyable**, I avoided the complexities
   of virtual copy support. In case the latter is desired, it would be
   much simpler to switch to a classical OO approach with a VTable
   and use our `PolymorphicValue` wrapper to handle copy and cloning.
2026-04-08 01:53:53 +02:00
259d0a5728 BufferProvider: now able to relocate OutputSlot into Vault Layer
The old implementation of `DiagnosticOutputSlot` is now disabled
and will be re-written from scratch, and no longer tangled to `BufferProvider`

 - `OutputManager` remains in Steam-Layer for now
 - the `Timings` and `OutputSlot` are now a self-contained
2026-03-10 23:12:30 +01:00
cc9dbd8a40 BufferProvider: relocate TestFrame and dummy-hash computations
These are generic vehicles to verify computation structures.
Since they are in no way related to our models, they belong into »Vault« layer

Furthermore this reorganisation of test support components is prerequisite
to also move further generic facilities down into the Vault
2026-03-07 23:02:35 +01:00