feat(opt-b01): Continuous Batching — 2-3x throughput, iteration-level scheduling, 13 tests

continuous_batching.zig (891 lines): Orca/vLLM-style continuous batch scheduler
- BatchScheduler: fixed-pool request management, batch slot lifecycle
- Priority queue: effective priority with wait-time boosting, insertion sort
- Iteration scheduling: completion detection, slot freeing, queue admission
- Continuous admission: new requests join immediately as slots free
- Preemption: lowest-priority eviction, return to queue
- Request lifecycle: queued → prefill → generating → completed/cancelled
- Token budget enforcement: max_tokens_per_iter limits batch expansion
- SchedulerStats: avg batch size, tokens/iter, wait iterations, preemptions
- ThroughputAnalysis: static vs continuous batching comparison
- 13 tests: config, submit, admit, batch cap, completion, continuous flow,
  priority ordering, preemption, cancel, stats, throughput, empty batch
- Zig 0.15.2 compatible (zero std.ArrayList, stack-safe fixed arrays)
- build.zig: test-continuous-batching step wired

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: gHashTag

.ralph/TECH_TREE.md

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 ## ✅ Recently Completed
 | ID | Name | Branch | Gain |
 |----|------|--------|------|
+|**OPT-B01**|**Continuous Batching**|**optimization**|**continuous_batching.zig (891 lines): Orca/vLLM-style iteration-level scheduler, priority queue with wait-time boost, preemption, 13 tests, completion detection, continuous admission, throughput analysis, build.zig wired**|
+|----|------|--------|------|
 |**OPT-PA01**|**PagedAttention**|**optimization**|**paged_attention.zig (947 lines): vLLM-style block KV cache, CoW block sharing, 14 tests, 4-10x memory efficiency, beam search fork, pool lifecycle, attention Q@K^T+softmax+V, memory analysis (64x with ternary), build.zig wired**|
 |----|------|--------|------|
 |**OPT-T02**|**Ternary Matrix Multiplication**|**optimization**|**ternary_matmul.zig (851 lines): 10x matmul speedup (no multiply), scalar+SIMD8+SIMD16+batch4 kernels, matmat, 3 quant modes, per-row scales, 15.9x compression, cosine accuracy, 15 tests**|
@@ -88,7 +90,6 @@
 |OPT-M01|Memory-Mapped Loading|optimization|30x faster model load|
 |OPT-C01|KV Cache Compression|optimization|5-16x cache compression|
 |OPT-S01|Speculative Decoding|optimization|2-3x generation speed|
-|OPT-B01|Continuous Batching|optimization|2-3x throughput|
 
 ## 🔒 Locked (waiting for dependencies)
 | ID | Name | Branch | Needs (missing) |
@@ -105,20 +106,20 @@
 |Core|3|4|75%|
 |Inference|2|5|40%|
 |Deployment|2|4|50%|
-|**Optimization**|**15**|**15**|**100%**|
+|**Optimization**|**16**|**16**|**100%**|
 |Hardware|0|3|0%|
 |**Math**|**5**|**5**|**100%**|
 |**Development**|**3**|**3**|**100%**|
 |**Symbolic**|**5**|**5**|**100%**|
 |Visualization|1|1|100%|
 |**Nexus**|**10**|**10**|**100%**|
 |Multilingual|3|3|100%|
-|**Total**|**46**|**55**|**84%**|
+|**Total**|**47**|**56**|**84%**|
 
 ## 🎯 Recommended Next (highest ROI)
-1. **OPT-B01** Continuous Batching — 2-3x throughput, combines with PagedAttention
-2. **OPT-S01** Speculative Decoding — 2-3x generation speed
-3. **INF-001** GGUF Parser — load any GGUF model, unlocks real inference
+1. **OPT-S01** Speculative Decoding — 2-3x generation speed, uses existing ternary pipeline
+2. **INF-001** GGUF Parser — load any GGUF model, unlocks real inference pipeline
+3. **CORE-004** JIT Compilation — needs HW-001 but provides 500% execution speed
 
 ---
 φ² + 1/φ² = 3 | TRINITY

build.zig

@@ -1843,4 +1843,17 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
     const gen_paged_attn_step = b.step("test-paged-attention", "Test OPT-PA01 PagedAttention 4-10x memory efficiency");
     gen_paged_attn_step.dependOn(&run_gen_paged_attn_tests.step);
     test_step.dependOn(&run_gen_paged_attn_tests.step);
+
+    // Generated Continuous Batching tests (OPT-B01: 2-3x throughput)
+    const gen_cont_batch_tests = b.addTest(.{
+        .root_module = b.createModule(.{
+            .root_source_file = b.path("generated/continuous_batching.zig"),
+            .target = target,
+            .optimize = optimize,
+        }),
+    });
+    const run_gen_cont_batch_tests = b.addRunArtifact(gen_cont_batch_tests);
+    const gen_cont_batch_step = b.step("test-continuous-batching", "Test OPT-B01 Continuous Batching 2-3x throughput");
+    gen_cont_batch_step.dependOn(&run_gen_cont_batch_tests.step);
+    test_step.dependOn(&run_gen_cont_batch_tests.step);
 }