1.0.0-RC5

What's Changed

FsName Restructure

• Push validation to creation instead of per-call on hot paths
• Recursive intern() with safe get-then-putIfAbsent pattern (no nested computeIfAbsent)
• Collapse name(String) to single internChild delegation
• Remove redundant requireNonNull checks from internal methods (rely on natural NPE)
• Cached Optional<Name> enclosure in constructor for efficient Extent defaults
• Static ParentIterator class, optimised within() with depth-guard fast-fail

Benchmark impact (NameOps):

Benchmark	Before	After	vs Humainary
name_chaining	14.1 ns	5.2 ns	beats 9.45 by 45%
name_from_iterable	20.6 ns	10.0 ns	matches 9.81
name_from_iterator	20.3 ns	10.5 ns	matches 9.67
name_parsing	6.4 ns	2.5 ns	within 20% of 2.10

FsState Optimisations

• Lazy-cached compact() result (same pattern as String.hashCode)
• Cached values() matches array for repeated calls with same slot
• typeMatches shortcut: == before isAssignableFrom for exact-type matches

Benchmark impact (StateOps):

Benchmark	Before	After	vs Humainary
state_compact	30.4 ns	3.2 ns	beats 9.5 by 3×
state_values_stream	24.2 ns	7.0 ns	was +490%, now +71%

Documentation

• GitHub Packages consumer instructions added to both READMEs (repository config + PAT setup)
• Full benchmark refresh: 863 benchmarks (680 Serventis + 185 Substrates)
• Updated selected benchmark numbers in README

Other

• Version bump to 1.0.0-RC5 across pom.xml and READMEs
• EditorConfig formatting applied to 7 files

Full test suite: 722 tests passing (274 contract + 448 TCK)