Cut core/wire and shell/persist comment bloat ~46% (comments only, zero code change)

src/core/wire/bytes.h

@@ -1,19 +1,12 @@
-// core/wire/bytes.h — the ONE little-endian byte codec (Q-W2v; audit T4-20).
-// Pure, header-only: standard library only — NO REAPER, NO SWELL, NO VST3.
+// core/wire/bytes.h — the ONE little-endian byte codec. Pure, header-only:
+// standard library only — no REAPER, no SWELL, no VST3.
 //
-// Five hand-rolled LE copies existed at the Q-W0 census (sample_map's
-// putU32le/putU64le + ByteReader, capture_realtime's writeU32LE, capture_paths'
-// readU32LE lambda, ingest's putU32 lambda, instrument_drop's appendU32LE). This
-// template is the single survivor: compile-time dispatched, zero runtime cost,
-// entirely off hot paths (serialization / file I/O only). The ComponentState
-// codec (component_state_io) is its biggest consumer; the remaining hand-rolled
-// copies rewire opportunistically in the waves that already open their files.
-//
-// Wire formats are FROZEN: putLE<u32>/putLE<u64> emit exactly the bytes the
-// retired putU32le/putU64le emitted (LSB first, fixed width), and ByteReader
-// preserves the latch-on-truncation contract (once a read runs past the end,
-// ok latches false and every subsequent read yields zeros/empties — a truncated
-// blob degrades to a partial parse, never out-of-bounds).
+// component_state_io is the biggest consumer. Wire format is FROZEN: putLE
+// emits fixed-width LSB-first bytes exactly as the hand-rolled copies it
+// replaced did, and ByteReader preserves the latch-on-truncation contract —
+// once a read runs past the end, ok latches false and every subsequent read
+// yields zeros/empties, so a truncated blob degrades to a partial parse,
+// never an out-of-bounds read.
 
 #pragma once
 
@@ -50,11 +43,8 @@ inline double bitsToDouble(std::uint64_t bits) {
     return d;
 }
 
-// A bounded little-endian reader over a byte blob. Every read is length-checked;
-// once a read runs past the end the reader latches `ok=false` and yields zeros,
-// so a truncated blob degrades to a partial/empty parse rather than reading out
-// of bounds. (The class formerly private to sample_map.cpp, promoted here as the
-// codec's tested primitive — T4-20.)
+// A bounded little-endian reader over a byte blob (see the file header for the
+// truncation-latch contract).
 struct ByteReader {
     const std::vector<std::uint8_t>& bytes;
     std::size_t pos = 0;