fix: store the stream clock as f64, so a stamp's precision does not decay with uptime

The time ring was f32 like the values, holding each stamp relative to an epoch
fixed at the first sample ever seen -- so the number stored grew for as long as
the app ran while the interval it had to resolve stayed one sample period. At
1 MS/s the f32 ULP reaches the sample period after about sixteen seconds, so two
to four consecutive samples rounded onto one stamp after half a minute and eight
after a minute. On screen that is a plateau the LOD envelope draws as a
zero-width segment -- a vertical spike where the waveform should be -- and in an
export it was three distinct diffs at 2, 2.5 and 3 ULP instead of one clock.

A value's precision is a property of the signal; a timestamp's is a property of
how long the scope has been running. Only the clock widens: the values are the
memory budget. That makes the two slices different sizes per slot, so
plan_partition() weighs its growth loop in bytes rather than in slots (and
bytes_for() is what bounds the doubling); live_window_locked() loses the f32
round-trip of its bounds, which existed only to keep a sample sitting exactly on
one; and EventSnapshot::stamps is f64 because a pause view is not rebased and so
carries full stream time.

Verified against the fast mock: np.diff over two million exported rows now holds
exactly one step (1e-06, 1999999 times), no duplicate or backwards stamps, and
the 200 MB ring still spans 8.39 s. Every documented probe assertion unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Martino FerrariandClaude Opus 4.6 committed 2026-10-05 10:41:57 +02:00
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ const plot::data::MinMaxPyramid& null_pyramid() {
// --- ChannelBuffer ----------------------------------------------------------
ChannelBuffer::ChannelBuffer(std::shared_ptr<const plot::data::RingBuffer<f32>> values,
std::shared_ptr<const plot::data::RingBuffer<f32>> times, u64 stride,
std::shared_ptr<const plot::data::RingBuffer<f64>> times, u64 stride,
f64 epoch, f64 nominal_dt)
: values_(std::move(values)), times_(std::move(times)), stride_(stride < 1 ? 1 : stride),
epoch_(epoch), dt_(nominal_dt) {}
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ void ChannelBuffer::acquire() noexcept {
void ChannelBuffer::invalidate() noexcept {
published_ = 0;
window_x0_ = 0.0f;
window_x0_ = 0.0;
pyramid_.clear();
}
f32 ChannelBuffer::time_of(u64 absolute_index) const noexcept {
f64 ChannelBuffer::time_of(u64 absolute_index) const noexcept {
// Channel sample `j` is produced on the tick that also pushes time slot
// `j*stride + stride - 1` (see `Acquisition::on_data`): the producer stamps the
// time ring every `time_stride` ticks and the channel every `stride` of those,
@@ -102,10 +102,10 @@ f32 ChannelBuffer::time_of(u64 absolute_index) const noexcept {
// whole trace's geometry collapsing.
const u64 base = times_->base();
const u64 produced = times_->produced();
if (produced == 0) return 0.0f;
if (produced == 0) return 0.0;
u64 slot = index < base ? base : index;
if (slot >= produced) slot = produced - 1;
f32 out = 0.0f;
f64 out = 0.0;
times_->copy_from(slot, 1, &out);
return out;
}
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ f64 ChannelBuffer::dx() const {
f64 ChannelBuffer::x0() const {
if (pyramid_.size() == 0) return epoch_;
return epoch_ + f64(window_x0_);
return epoch_ + window_x0_;
}
f64 ChannelBuffer::x_at(u64 i) const {
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ f64 ChannelBuffer::x_at(u64 i) const {
// ring-span too new made it refuse the whole visible range -- which left the renderer
// gathering the entire ring at a coarse level and drawing it off the axis.
if (i == 0) return x0();
return epoch_ + f64(time_of(absolute(i)));
return epoch_ + time_of(absolute(i));
}
bool ChannelBuffer::neighbours(f64 x, u64& i0, u64& i1) const {
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ u64 ChannelBuffer::snap_index(f64 x) const {
plot::Range ChannelBuffer::x_bounds() const {
const u64 n = pyramid_.size();
if (n == 0) return plot::Range{epoch_, epoch_};
return plot::Range{x0(), epoch_ + f64(time_of(absolute(n - 1)))};
return plot::Range{x0(), epoch_ + time_of(absolute(n - 1))};
}
plot::Range ChannelBuffer::y_bounds() const {