codegen: inline proto2 extension writers/readers (qwt) + table.new(N,0) for packed lists (2sn)

qwt closes the proto2_basic.BenchPayload `min` bench's worst data point:
encode 1.89M → 3.30M msgs/s (+75%), decode 1.02M → 1.26M msgs/s (+23%).
Mechanism: collectExtsByExtendee groups all `extend Foo { ... }`
declarations by extendee FullName across input files; emitInlineEncode
emits one dedicated writer per extension instead of dispatching through
pb.codec.encode_field, and emitInlineDecode adds an elseif arm per
extension id straight into result._extensions[full_name]. Dynamic
extensions_list walk preserved for forward compat, gated on
#_elist > N so it pays one int compare when no runtime extension was
registered.

2sn pre-sizes packed-scalar repeated lists via table.new(N, 0) where
the count is recoverable from the LEN payload — exact (lim >> 2 or
lim >> 3) for fixed-width, upper bound (lim) for varint-packed. The
allocation is deferred into the `if wt == 2 then` branch so the
per-element fallback and non-packable types keep the bare-`{}`
alloc. Avoids u39's regression mode because the call cost is paid
once per repeated-field-first-occurrence, not per message decode.

Bench summary for hello.Person full mode: encode +3-5% across sizes,
decode +1-3% across sizes. Tests: 752/752 pure-Lua, 1043/1043 with
PB_ENABLE_C=1, JIT 37/37. PERF_LOG entry covers the rationale and
caveats.

codegen: inline 1-byte LEN fast path for string/bytes decode

Singular and repeated string/bytes fields in generated full-mode _decode
now read the length byte and dispatch in-line instead of calling
wire.decode_string / wire.decode_bytes. For length < 128 (the common
short-string RPC case), the path stays inside the parent JIT trace:
no child-trace stitch, no per-element function frame, utf8_len lookup
hoisted to a generated-file upvalue.

The original a6n design — one ffi.cast(U8CP, buf) at the top of each
_decode — was abandoned: the cdata wrapper is 24 bytes per call and
LuaJIT can't sink the allocation because the pointer local lives
across wire.decode_* call frames. Net regression at small sizes
(+11-16%) overwhelmed the single-byte-read savings.

Bench (hello.Person full-mode decode):

      size    ns/op before   ns/op after   delta
      10B          419            390     -6.9%
      100B         515            478     -7.2%
      1KB         9004           8042    -10.7%
      10KB       64644          56745    -12.2%
      100KB     625638         537750    -14.0%

Zero allocation impact across all sizes. Tests: 1043 pass, 37 JIT
trace gates pass. (a6n)

codegen: inline 1-byte tag fast path at decode call sites

Hoists wire.decode_tag's 1-byte fast path into every generated
M.X_decode while-loop, falling back to the helper for multi-byte
tags (field ids > 15). The 1-byte case covers every protobuf field
with id 1..15 and is the dominant decode dispatch in real payloads.

Header now localizes string.byte, bit.band, and bit.rshift so the
inlined ops compile to straight local calls.

Bench (Person full decode, msgs/s, median-of-3 vs proper post-h8v
3-run baseline): 10B +14.7%, 100B +8.9%, 1KB +7.5%, 10KB +7.0%,
100KB +8.5%. Full encode is flat to small (-0.1% to -2.6%) at large
sizes, plausibly from header-upvalue layout. JIT trace gate: 37/37,
all bridges still 0. Tests: 745/745.

Also documented in bench/PERF_LOG.md, including the methodology
note that h8v's earlier numbers used single-run baselines and are
therefore ~3-5% optimistic; medians-of-3 are the standard now.

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bench,codec: pin proto2 paths, kill pairs() on extension hot path

JIT trace gate gains 12 proto2-specific checks (required encode/decode,
groups singular + repeated, extension encode/decode). The extension-encode
check fired NYI on bytecode 72 (ISNEXT) — pairs() over the new
extensions_by_full_name hash is the same trace-abort that gates map
encode. Fix: register_extension now also appends to extensions_list,
an array view. codec.encode_message, text.emit_message and
json.encode_message all switch to ipairs over the list. Hash tables
stay around for O(1) lookups in decode (extensions_by_id) and bracket-
name resolution (extensions_by_full_name).

Inline (full-mode) codegen learns to walk extensions too: before this
commit the inline encoder skipped t._extensions entirely (only the
runtime codec walked it), so a generated _encode silently dropped any
extension data set on the message. Add the array-walk after the field
loop and a decode_extension dispatch in the unknown-tag branch — the
inline path now matches runtime byte-for-byte.

bench/bench.lua parameterizes over a FIXTURES list so the baseline can
cover both hello.Person and a new proto2_basic.BenchPayload fixture
(required + group + extension + repeated). baseline.json restructured
under "schemas": [{schema, results}, …]; compare walks both. Fresh
numbers committed.

740/740 luatest cases pass; JIT gate 37/37; conformance 2806 binary+JSON
and 434 text-format, both 0 failures.

text,codec: proto2 group text syntax + closed-enum semantics

Text decoder now resolves a group field reference by the group's
capitalized submessage name (e.g. \`Data\`, \`MultiWordGroupField\`)
and by the ASCII-lowercase fold (\`data\`, \`multiwordgroupfield\`),
in addition to the existing lowercase field-name lookup. The \`:\`
between field and \`{\` is optional for groups (matches the
message/map rule).

Proto2 enums are closed: parse_enum_value now rejects an integer
literal that doesn't map to any declared value. The plugin emits
\`closed = true\` on every proto2 enum descriptor (driven by
protoreflect's IsClosed()); proto3 enums stay open to preserve
forward-compatibility on the wire.

Conformance text-format suite: 16 unexpected failures → 3, all in
the remaining extension-bracketed-group cases.

codec: proto2 groups (SGROUP/EGROUP wire format)

Plugin: detect protoreflect.GroupKind, emit kind='group' in the
field descriptor and a SGROUP opening tag in inline codegen. The
group body bypasses the LEN-prefix path entirely — encoder emits
start-tag, body bytes, end-tag in three slots; decoder calls
pb.codec.decode_group(desc, buf, pos, field_id) which reads inner
tags until the matching EGROUP id.

Wire layer already understood SGROUP/EGROUP for skip_field; the new
decode_group reuses the per-tag dispatch from decode_message but
stops on EGROUP instead of end-of-buffer. Repeated groups bracket
each element with its own SGROUP/EGROUP pair.

Runtime parser now desugars `optional|required|repeated group Name
= id { body }` into (a) a nested message named Name and (b) a
synthetic field of kind=group whose lowercased name is `name` — so
source-parsed proto2 schemas behave the same as build-time codegen.

Text format renders groups under the submessage's capitalized name
(`SingleGroup { ... }`) rather than the lowercase field name,
matching mainline protoc's convention.

Adds a vendored, MessageSet-stripped test_messages_proto2.proto in
test/conformance/proto/ (header comment documents the patch).
10 new luatest cases (group_*) cover singular + repeated + text +
descriptor kind, across both codegen modes. 739 tests pass.

codegen: proto2 baseline — required, optional, custom defaults

Lifts the proto3-only syntax gate in the plugin and threads three
new field-descriptor attributes through codegen and the codec:

  * required=true   — fields declared with the proto2 `required` keyword.
                      Inline codegen and the runtime codec both error when
                      a required field is missing on encode (vs the silent
                      elide that proto3 implicit-presence fields get).
  * optional=true   — already wired for proto3 explicit `optional`; in
                      proto2 every singular field carries it via the
                      existing HasOptionalKeyword() check, giving presence
                      semantics without a separate emission path.
  * default_value=… — proto2 [default = X] from the field descriptor,
                      rendered as a Lua literal (cdata for 64-bit ints,
                      symbolic name for enums) so consumers can surface
                      it; the codec itself does not auto-materialize
                      defaults on decode, matching how proto3 absent
                      fields stay nil.

Packed-by-default already flips correctly because we ask
protoreflect's `IsPacked()`, which is syntax-aware.

Adds test/proto/proto2_basic.proto with 33 luatest cases covering
required validation, optional presence, custom defaults, the proto2
unpacked-by-default repeated rule, nested-required messages, and
full-vs-runtime mode parity. `just gen-proto2-tests` regenerates the
fixture into examples/expected/{full,runtime}/.

Out of scope: extensions, extend, group; conformance harness still
skips TestAllTypesProto2.