test: link a prebuilt runtime into fixture bundles

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Fixture builds spent most of their time re-bundling the Marko runtime, which does not vary per fixture.

The runtime is now built once per source revision (content-keyed under src/__tests__/dist, shared by every worker and later run, swept when the key changes) and linked as an external in the three of four fixture bundles whose bytes are never measured. The compiler-injected *.feat side-effect modules reassign the runtime's own bindings, so they are entries of that bundle rather than copies in each fixture. The server side loads the linked runtime through the same evictable vm path as the fixture entry, so its module state stays per runner as it did when the runtime was inlined.

Affected snapshots carry the runtime's exported names (_scope, _attr_textarea_value) in place of a bundler-internal one; the emitted fixture code is otherwise unchanged. The rest is per-worker overhead: mocha/bin/_mocha runs directly instead of the wrapper that re-execs it with the config's node flags, and the worker heap is capped so V8 collects rather than growing past the memory budget and handing the slice to a fresh process. One /* @__PURE__ */ that rolldown rejects is dropped, because it printed a code frame on every fixture build.

test:parallel drops about a fifth on 16 cores (29.5s → 23.5s) and the coverage job just under that. Line and branch coverage are unchanged; the function count moves by two because three anonymous callbacks in the chunked runtime remap to a neighbouring function entry, not because they stopped running.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 noreply@anthropic.com

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The pull request improves runtime fixture test throughput. It allocates worker memory and Node options, schedules fixture builds ahead of execution, and reuses cached prebuilt runtime bundles. It adds detached console handling and bounded V8 module caching. It preserves absolute module identifiers, removes a serializer purity annotation, enables the Node compile cache, and adds performance feedback notes.

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This PR substantially changes test execution, caching, and parallel worker behavior to improve speed and memory use. It remains mergeable with owner awareness that warm coverage runs may have reduced V8 coverage precision and that some worker/core configurations may experience lower throughput from thread-pool oversubscription.

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packages/runtime-tags/src/__tests__/utils/import-with-context.ts (1)

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-// Every fixture realm re-compiles the same prebuilt runtime bundle, and V8's
-// own compilation cache is off because it pins each realm. Keep the code cache
-// for the handful of sources that actually repeat, and only once a source has
-// been seen twice — producing it for a one-shot module is pure overhead.
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packages/runtime-tags/src/__tests__/utils/bundle.ts (1)

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