engine support

Two steps consume most of the week and neither is the one people plan for. The gate that can end the project on day one, the multi-hour download, the correctness check almost nobody runs, and the canary that has to see real traffic before Friday.

Most layers stop having a growing cache, which changes capacity planning by a large factor and demands a cache manager most engines did not have. What the memory model becomes, what the engine must implement, and the two features that were disabled by default while it settled.