perf(resolution): darwin-honest memory budget — vm_stat-based availability unstrangles the resolver pool on macOS (#1388)

Post-R7b store-arc round 1, found by the dubbo warm-wall decomposition
(the cbm bar): resolution's loop-stage profile showed settle=3.0s — the
main thread idling on TWO resolver workers on an 11-core Mac. Pool sizing
logged `size=2 (budget=1068MB)`: memoryBudgetBytes() falls back to
os.freemem() when uncontained, and macOS keeps RAM deliberately full of
reclaimable cache, so freemem reads ~1GB on a mostly-idle 64GB machine.
The memory term then capped the pool at 2 where the CPU term allowed 6 —
the macOS sibling of §7a.1's os.cpus() cpuset-blindness (that round fixed
the CPU term; this fixes the memory term).

Fix: darwinMemoryAvailable() reads /usr/bin/vm_stat once per sizing call
and reports free + inactive + speculative + purgeable pages — what
Activity Monitor calls available, the same reclaimable-inclusive
convention the Linux branch already uses by crediting inactive_file back.
Parse failure → null → freemem fallback; Linux/cgroup and Windows paths
untouched.

Measured (dubbo 4,402 files, warm, caffeinated, n=3 each): pool now
self-sizes to 6 (budget 5.7-6.3GB) — wall 8.62-8.83s vs 9.67-10.87s
baseline, resolution phase 6.9→5.3s, loop settle 3.0→1.9s. Matches the
CODEGRAPH_RESOLVE_WORKERS=6 probe exactly (probe-before-build). Dumps
byte-identical pool-6 vs sequential (441,270 lines). Second consumer
unblocked: the cFnPtr LRU cache cap no longer spuriously degrades to 128
on Macs (its full-cache tier is worth ~60s at kernel scale).

Suite: resolver-pool-sizing gains a darwin-gated reclaimable-pages test +
an off-darwin null pin; full suite 2,689 green ×2 with
CODEGRAPH_KERNEL_EXPECT=1.

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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