v4 CL-B1a — hard ceiling on WORKER STARTUP, kept separate from the matching
budget. Spawning a thread is not matching, and charging it to the ReDoS
budget rejected legitimate patterns on large vaults purely from per-batch
process overhead. A worker that never reaches online is an infrastructure
failure, not catastrophic backtracking, and says so.
v4 CL-B1a — hard ceiling on WORKER STARTUP, kept separate from the matching budget. Spawning a thread is not matching, and charging it to the ReDoS budget rejected legitimate patterns on large vaults purely from per-batch process overhead. A worker that never reaches
onlineis an infrastructure failure, not catastrophic backtracking, and says so.