perf(hip): wide stream rounds reuse cached weights, and a chunk's code pairs are made once - #1694

Node.js 20 is deprecated. The following actions target Node.js 20 but are being forced to run on Node.js 24: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262, actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065, mlugg/setup-zig@d1434d08867e3ee9daa34448df10607b98908d29. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-19-deprecation-of-node-20-on-github-actions-runners/