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serf: stay in an inner road between events
This PR runs the serf in an inner road, as long as possible. In practice, the serf will return to the home road to take a snapshot or for |pack
, |meld
, and |mass
.
With this change, all allocations of events and effects no longer modify persistent state. Home-road unification (which we don't have) is somewhat deprioritized, as arvo lives on an inner road between snapshots. On the other hand, with the more efficient free-list utilization from #539, the many small (re)allocations involved in incremental arvo updates should help to defragment the home-road heap.
This PR is a draft because the changes are still somewhat messy, and the error-handling behavior after this change needs to be carefully tested.
This PR should help with urbit/urbit#6805