On a geometry edit the resident set gets a fresh content id, so the batched wire
path (build_wire_buffers) re-emits and re-uploads EVERY wire instance — the whole
buffer even when one line moved. Behind the OCS_WIRE_GPU_PATCH flag (default off,
native only), add a persistent per-entity instance arena: one long-lived
VERTEX|COPY_DST instance buffer + its WireConst storage, with a per-entity slab
table. An in-place edit (move / rotate / scale / colour — same segment count)
becomes a queue.write_buffer of just that entity`s slab.
Scope is deliberately IN-PLACE ONLY. draw_depth_map normalises each entity`s
draw-order z-bias by the block`s entity count, so an Add or Remove re-scales EVERY
entity`s z-bias — which a per-slab patch can`t honour — and a segment-count change
relocates the entity. patch() returns false for any of those (and for mesh-edge /
scissored sets), and the caller falls back to the identical full batched rebuild,
so correctness never rides on the fast path. An adversarial review of an earlier
append/tombstone design surfaced exactly these draw-order hazards; restricting to
in-place removes them while keeping the common interactive-edit win.
The Scene hands the changed handles to the arena via model_wire_gpu_patch,
recorded by try_resident_patch for the Model block and matched by content id in
prepare(); scissored paper viewports and mixed 2D/3D sets keep the batched path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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