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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ These are the user's stated requirements, restated as testable criteria.
 | **R2** | Efficient display of huge RAW libraries | A 50,000-image catalog scrolls at 60fps sustained, with a stated prefetch margin and cache-hit rate sufficient that no cell renders as a placeholder at a scroll velocity of *(figure TBD)* rows/second. Catalog opens in under 2s. |
 | **R3** | Make a RAW beautiful at 8-bit output | Full non-destructive develop chain at high internal precision, with camera input profiles (FR-DEV-3e) and a colour-managed path to 8/16-bit export. |
 | **R4** | HW acceleration and parallelism | All per-pixel work runs on GPU compute. CPU work (decode, I/O) is parallelised across cores. The UI executor never blocks on image work (NFR-ARCH-1). |
-| **R5** | Work on downscaled proxies for display | Display pipeline operates at viewport resolution, not source resolution. Only visible tiles are computed; panning recomputes only newly exposed tiles. |
+| **R5** | Work on downscaled proxies for display | Display pipeline operates at viewport resolution, not source resolution. The tiling clauses this criterion used to carry have been struck — see below. |
 | **R6** | Nextcloud integration | Browse, download, and upload images and edit metadata against a Nextcloud instance, offline-capable. |
 
 **On R1's tolerance.** An earlier draft required output to be *bit-identical* across platforms.
@@ -72,6 +72,31 @@ Where genuine bit-identity is required — cache keys, edit-graph hashing (§5.2
 applies to *integer* operations on CPU-side state, which are deterministic, never to GPU float
 results.
 
+**On R5's tiling.** An earlier draft added two clauses to R5's criterion: *"only visible tiles are
+computed; panning recomputes only newly exposed tiles"*. They have been struck, and the reason is
+the same one that FR-DSP-2 was rewritten for rather than implemented — [frame-budget.md](frame-budget.md)
+measured it.
+
+R5's actual demand is met and tested. The display pipeline works at viewport resolution:
+`Framing::view` shrinks the sampled region while the render target keeps its size, so zooming raises
+the resolution the pipeline works at rather than magnifying pixels already drawn, and
+`core/dr-gpu/tests/zoom_resolution.rs` establishes it as a pixel equality rather than an impression
+of sharpness.
+
+Tiling is a different claim, and it was written in as though it were the mechanism by which the
+first one is achieved. It is not. Recomputing the *entire* 4K viewport costs 4.5 ms of a 16 ms
+budget, so a perfect tile cache saves at most that, in exchange for a cache keyed by
+`(VersionId, tile, zoom, graph_hash_prefix)` that has to stay correct across every parameter change
+in the graph — a large correctness surface bought with a small number. And for the one stage that
+does miss the budget, tiling makes it worse: that stage is a convolution, and a tiled convolution
+reads a halo per tile, so at the 52 px radius measured at 4K a 256 px tile would read (256+104)²
+taps instead of 256², very nearly twice the work.
+
+The intent behind the struck clauses — that the display path must not do work proportional to the
+source image — survives in the clause that remains, which is the honest statement of it. Tiling
+stays where FR-DSP-2 puts it: a scheduling concern for export and thumbnailing, both of which
+already run off the frame path.
+
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 ## 3. Functional requirements