Closes#33. The field was public, hardcoded to 0 at both construction sites,
and had no route to ever being non-zero.
It was added in T3 as the reporting surface for dirty-bit slice skipping. That
feature is #4, closed as unworkable — the ceiling measured at ~6% against a
projected 5-50x, on top of three independent soundness blockers. #32, which
reattributed the cost to ingestion, is closed too: the re-convergence is
necessary work rather than waste, because appending one event genuinely moves
the involved competitors ~1.2 sigma across their whole history. Nothing left
would ever populate it.
This is the same defect class as #19, where this arc started: a public surface
that looks implemented, reports a plausible value, and is inert. A caller
reading `slices_skipped: 0` reasonably concludes "no slices were skipped this
run", not "this feature does not exist".
Removed rather than documented as reserved. Its only value was as a hook for a
plan that no longer exists, and keeping it preserves the shape of that plan.
Breaking, but ConvergenceReport is returned rather than constructed by callers,
so the only breakage is code reading a constant zero.
Also added a test asserting every remaining field carries real information —
iterations non-zero, final_step finite, log_evidence a finite negative log
probability, and per_iteration_time holding one duration per iteration.
Mutation-proved: pinning per_iteration_time to an empty SmallVec fails it. The
next always-constant member now has to survive an assertion rather than just a
reviewer's attention, which is the actual lesson of #19 and #33.
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