The port refuted the boundaries in boot-splash-dwells-are-declared.md by
arithmetic: the two splash spans gave 2.237 and 2.414 units/frame, 7.9% apart on
one boot of one guest, which must be one number. They proposed the spans were
anchored on different elements.
The log says the cause is worse. The developer splash batches SIX quads into one
draw (indices=24) and the log dumps only the first two. While the three glows are
alive they occupy that prefix, so the three wordmarks are invisible to the log
until the glows stop being submitted at t=45. "Developer wordmarks first drawn at
frame 140" was the logging prefix shifting, not the game -- and the same defect
explains why palogo_anima never appeared at all.
The fix costs nothing: indices/4 is how many quads the draw actually holds, and
the 8-vertex cap cannot touch it. Its transitions land exactly where the declared
count of elements with alpha>0 changes, giving free calibration points:
publisher 1->2 quads at frame 5.5 (t=15), 2->1 at 22.5 (t=45), ends 119.5 (t=255)
developer 3->6 quads at frame 126.5 (t=15), 6->3 at 139.5 (t=45), ends 209.5 (t=210)
That yields 1.765 and 2.165 units/frame on the publisher, 2.308 and 2.357 on the
developer -- the developer's two independent segments agreeing to 2%, and the rate
rising 33% across the run. One cause for both the port's 7.9% inconsistency and
this page's open 4.1% publisher error, exactly as they predicted: the publisher
splash runs during the first seconds, where the rate is furthest from its later
value. It also means no single units-per-frame figure describes a run here, which
is the dwell-is-emulator-paced conclusion from a third direction.
The declared dwells (255 and 210 units) and the corpus's three-cold-boot
confirmation are untouched -- neither uses this draw log.
METHOD.md gains the general form: when an instrument truncates, the surviving
sample is not random, it is the first N, and what falls in the first N is itself a
moving function of the thing being measured. A truncated view looks like a
complete view of a smaller set.
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