RossK1 performance improvements

[RossK1]

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[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will improve performance by ×7.2

⚡ 4 improved benchmarks
✅ 2 untouched benchmarks

Performance Changes

	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
⚡	test_bench_compute_histogram[solution]	9,427.7 ms	431.3 ms	×22
⚡	test_bench_find_matches[solution]	5.8 s	1 s	×5.7
⚡	test_bench_compute_histogram[baseline]	10.7 s	9.3 s	+15.72%
⚡	test_bench_find_corruptions[solution]	10,750 ms	573 ms	×19

Tip

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_{Comparing RossK1:ross_kukard (6c050fa) with main (72790a0)}