The GPU engine's waits on its stream (every evaluation, the refits' transforms) and the model density's wait for
the (brick, atom) pair count were blocking event and stream synchronisations; where a weight trial has a card to
itself, as on a box with a card per trial, the wake-up of the sleeping thread is on the critical path of every
evaluation. Both now poll, and the pair count and overflow flag come back into pinned memory instead of a
pageable int (a pageable copy back is staged and blocks the host for the whole stream).
OwnSlotDevices places the slots beyond one per card on the cards the ladder's long trials (those refining B)
leave free, so that on four cards the three B rungs have a card each and the three B-held rungs share the fourth,
instead of two cards each carrying a B rung beside a B-held one. The outcome does not depend on the placement.
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