- Removed Legacy Backend fallback; Shared Pool is now the sole backend.
- Removed Soft Cap limit in Shared Pool to allow full memory management.
- Implemented EMPTY slab recycling with batched meta->used decrement in remote drain.
- Updated tiny_free_local_box to return is_empty status for safe recycling.
- Fixed race condition in release path by removing from legacy list early.
- Achieved 50.3M ops/s in WS8192 benchmark (+200% vs baseline).