11 isomorphic performance fixes from deep audit (no behavior changes):
- Eliminate double serialization: store_payload now accepts pre-serialized
bytes (&[u8]) instead of re-serializing from serde_json::Value. Uses
Cow<[u8]> for zero-copy when compression is disabled.
- Add SQLite cache_size (64MB) and mmap_size (256MB) pragmas
- Replace SELECT-then-INSERT label upserts with INSERT...ON CONFLICT
RETURNING in both issues.rs and merge_requests.rs
- Replace INSERT + SELECT milestone upsert with RETURNING
- Use prepare_cached for 5 hot-path queries in extractor.rs
- Optimize compute_list_hash: index-sort + incremental SHA-256 instead
of clone+sort+join+hash
- Pre-allocate embedding float-to-bytes buffer with Vec::with_capacity
- Replace RandomState::new() in rand_jitter with atomic counter XOR nanos
- Remove redundant per-note payload storage (discussion payload contains
all notes already)
- Change transform_issue to accept &GitLabIssue (avoids full struct clone)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>