tp: add flamechart operator for sampled stack rendering To render sampled call stacks as a flame chart over time, the UI needs the maximal-run decomposition of a stream of (ts, leaf callsite) samples: for each stack depth, the time ranges over which the same frame was continuously present. Computing this in SQL needs unbounded recursive expansion and doing it in JS means shipping every sample to the UI, so implement it as a C++ operator mirroring the flamegraph split: a pure sweep in flamechart.cc and a SQLite aggregate (__intrinsic_flamechart) wrapping it. The sweep is a single streaming pass over ts-ordered points: points whose stack shares a prefix with the previous one extend the open segments at those depths; only divergent depths close and open segments. Leaf ids resolve through the id -> row index persisted on Tree, and output rows stream straight into a dataframe. Expose the operator to SQL as _flamechart_runs! in the std.trees stdlib module, alongside the other tree operations.
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